Critical Analysis of an Article- Part 5

Hello everyone….

Have you ever analyzed an article? If ever, how difficult it is?

Analyze and think critically is a valuable skill. Analyzing articles is an activity that is not easy, but it becomes not difficult if you have interest in reading.

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In this post, I will analyze the article I have read, I still use the same article as my previous posts, which is Shadowing: Who benefits and how? Uncovering a boom EFL teaching technique for listening comprehension " by Yo Hamada. Do you wanna know more about it? Let's move on!


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1. The Title

This international article has title "Shadowing: who benefits and how? Uncovering a booming EFL technique for listening comprehension "by Yo Hamada. The major idea in this article is to discuss whether shadowing is effective for improving listening skills in Japanese students.


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2. The Abstract

In the abstract explained that the author has done research on shadowing. Where the study was followed by participants consisting of 43 Japanese language students Japanese as a foreign language (EFL) from Japanese national universities. Students are divided into low and medium ability groups using pre-test listening results. Statistical analysis showed that phonemic perception was improved in both groups, but only low-ability students increased their scores for high school-level listening questions.


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3. The Introduction

In this article, I can find the purpose in his research, the goal is to test as effectively as the shadowing improves the listening ability of the learner. This research is done because the idea that previously did not have enough research, and the latter did not have empirical data. Therefore, this study examines whether shadow training enhances perceptions and listens to learners' phonemes of comprehension skills (RQ1) and whether their effectiveness is limited to low listening learning learners (RQ2).


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4. The Method

a) Participants

A total of 43 new students (26 men and 17 women), health, education and engineering departments at Japanese national universities participated in this research experiment. and the participants were divided into 2 groups namely low group ability with 25 students (19 male and 6 female) and middle group with 18 students dented (6 male and 12 female).

b). Materials

This study uses EFL Reading Explorer 2 textbooks (CEF: B1 - B2 level) (MacIntyre, 2009), used by all new students at the university.

c). Procedures

Participants were given shadow-based lessons twice a week for a month (nine times in total) by following procedures that previously demonstrated their positive effectiveness in improving students' listening comprehension.

c). Data Analysis

First, to divide learners into intermediaries-and low-skill groups, pre-test hearing is used. Boundaries are drawn between 10 and 11 based on an average score of 10.44 and a maximum score of 22 (total number of questions). Learners with a total score of 10 or less categorized as low-learner learners, while those with 11 or more are categorized as learning medium learners. Second, descriptive statistics are used to describe the main features that data collects.


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5. The Results

In summary, both groups improved in terms of phoneme perception. Only the low-proficiency group improved their scores on the high-school-level questions, while both groups showed little improvement for the university-level questions.


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6. The Discussion

This study examines whether shadow training enhances the perception of participants' phonemes of listening comprehension skills and skills and whether their effectiveness is limited to low-skilled learners. Overall, the results indicate that shadow training is effective for improving phoneme perception skills regardless of listening skills level. However, for basic listening comprehension skills, it is only effective for low proficiency learners. For advanced listening skills, it is not effective in both groups.


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7. The Conclusion

Shadowing is effective for improving learning ability. Although this study compares the shadow of group-based effectiveness, individual differences among learners should be recognized because some learners in both groups showed different patterns of improvement. As data on shadowing is still limited, the authors hope that this research will trigger further research.


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I think that's all for analysis, see you in my next post :)

Keep blogging guys! 

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