Hoerbuch–Deutsch: Maerchen on Youtube as Additional Material for Listening Skills for Students of the German Literature Study Program

Abstract

As is known, the Covid-19 pandemic has changed the way of teaching and learning. In learning listening skills, many teachers or lecturers use social media such as YouTube. This study discusses the exercises that can develop listening skills teaching materials obtained from audiobooks (Hoerbuch-Deutsch) on YouTube. The title of the fairy tale of the audio text in the audiobook is Rotkaeppchen. Some exercises can be given to students before, during, and after listening. The six forms of exercise being tested are: Associograms, Discussion of the topic, Multiple-choice, True or false, W-questions about the text, which statements are factual? To find out students' interest in the six forms of exercise given, students were given a questionnaire. The questionnaire was filled out by 37 fourth-semester students of the German Literatur Study Program at Universitas Negeri Surabaya. The questionnaire results showed that the students' very high interest was in the forms of exercise: Associograms (67%), Discussion of the topic (52%), and Which statements are true? (73%). Meanwhile, the exercises that make students uninterested are Multiple-choice (22%), True or false (45%), and W-question about the text (19%). The data of this research are the words and sentences that were heard from the audiobook. This descriptive qualitative research explains that the six exercises can be used in learning listening skills. The contribution of this research helps lecturers to use types of listening skills exercises based on the of Hoerbuch-Deutsch on Youtube.