Conclusion

The present study has shown that doing shadowing practice by using the recording feature of mobile phone is indeed a beneficial method for EFL classroom teaching.

Particularly, this project is of value in offering practical steps and profound insights for those who intend to adopt shadowing practice to their own students. In addition, since both advantages and shortcomings are clarified in this research, educators have great flexibility to change such mobile-assisted shadowing practice into the most suitable version of their own. Ultimately, it is hoped that mobile-assisted shadowing practice can be more widely applicable in the EFL context; thus, more and more students will be allowed to reap the benefits of it.

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Appendix A

GEPT Listening Comprehension Test: Elementary level

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Appendix B

Online Questionnaire (English Version)

Dear Student,

After one month of shadowing practice, how do you feel? Please mark the degree (1= strongly disagree; 2=disagree; 3=neutral; 4=agree; 5=strongly agree) which you think well represents your feeling or opinion for each question. This questionnaire is for research purposes only.

◆ Section 1

1 2 3 4 5 1 I feel my listening ability has improved.

2 I feel my overall English ability has improved.

3 It was easy for me to do in-class shadowing practice.

4 I benefited from the teacher’s instruction a lot.

5 I benefited from the model video clips a lot.

6 I benefited from my classmates’ help a lot.

7 I benefited from my own practice a lot.

8 After I did shadowing practice more than once, it was much better.

9 I think mobile phone is a useful tool to improve my listening ability.

10 I think the recording feature of the mobile phone is a useful tool to do shadowing practice.

11 I enjoyed doing in-class shadowing practice a lot.

12 I like the pair work of shadowing activity a lot.

13 I like to learn English more.

14 I will use the same way to improve my listening in the future.

◆ Section 2

1. What are the advantages of doing one-month shadowing practice?

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2. What are the disadvantages of doing one-month shadowing practice?

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3. What are the suggestions you’d like to give for further implementation.

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 Thank you for your participation!

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Appendix C

Semi-structured Interview Questions (English Version)

(1) What are your opinions and feelings toward improving listening ability through shadowing practice? Do you find it acceptable?

(2) Please compare shadowing practice with other methods that you have used to train listening ability before.

(3) What are your thoughts and feelings when you get your post-test score? What might be the reasons for such performance?

(4) Please describe in detail the difficulty that you have faced when doing shadowing practice. Have you tried to overcome?

(5) Please describe in detail the easiest part or the part you like the most when doing shadowing practice.

(6) Will you use shadowing practice to improve your listening ability in the future?

Why or why not?

Semi-structured Interview Questions (Chinese Version) 訪談問題大綱

(1) 你對於用跟述練習來提昇英文聽力的想法(或感受)是？接受度為何？

(2) 請和過去自己練習聽力的方式做比較。

(3) 對於自己第二次的成績表現，有什麼想法(或感受)？覺得可能造成這樣表現 的原因為何？

(4) 請詳細描述在做跟述練習時，所遇到的困難為何？如何解決？

(5) 請詳細描述在做跟述練習時，覺得較簡單、易掌握的部分。

(6) 未來還會用跟述練習來提昇英文聽力嗎？請詳述理由為何？