INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE PROCEEDING Empowering The Future of ELT Politeknik Negeri Malang

ABSTRACT
Concerning the importance of having good listening skills for English Education students who are being prepared as English teacher candidates, every learning process of listening skills must be effective in order to improve the quality of listening comprehension in English Education students. Thus, this research focused on the implementation of Extensive Listening which was chosen as a technique to be believed as a meeting point between learner‘s autonomy and their quality of listening comprehension. To support this, the researcher selected a platform to help the students experience learning listening skills more independently and use their own learning style called TED Talks. The research involved the second semester English Department students in a private university in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Mixed-method research was applied and the data were collected by using questionnaire and interview. The result of this research showed that the Extensive Listening implementation through TED Talks Platform could improve the students‘ comprehension towards the listening materials. Furthermore, there were positive responses which presented that the techniques could accommodate the learners‘ autonomy and learning styles.