scholarly journals Listening Skills Development in Teaching Turkish as a Foreign Language and The Usage of Metacognitive Strategies

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Başak Karakoç Öztürk
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Listening Comprehension ◽  
Main Idea ◽  
Metacognitive Strategies ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Skills Development ◽  
Listening Skills ◽  
Certification Program ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Listening Strategies

The aim of this study is to determine the state of using metacognitive strategies to develop listening skills in teaching Turkish as a foreign language to Syrian children. This research is a descriptive study designed with the survey method. In June 2017, the Certification Program for Teaching Turkish as a Foreign Language was organized for Turkish educators who work in Adana, as a part of “The Project of Supporting Syrian Children’s Integration into the Turkish Education System”. In this context, all Turkish educators who work in Adana composed the population of this study while 108 Turkish educators constituted the sample of the study. In this study, the data were collected by the “Metacognitive Listening Strategies Opinion Form” developed by the researcher and analyzed with descriptive statistical techniques.  The findings of the study showed that most of the metacognitive strategies that can be used before listening are rarely used and that the response rates as to “always” or “often” in the questionnaire are quite low. It was observed that Turkish educators usually “rarely” used strategies apart from the strategy of “underlining words the meaning of which they do not know” in the listening process.The findings further indicated that more strategies were used before and after listening than during listening and that the most frequently used strategies by learners were summarizing the listening text in their own words, expressing the theme and main idea of the text they were listening to, telling which section/s in the listening text they mostly focused on, and answering the listening comprehension questions.

scholarly journals The Effect of Dictogloss on Listening Comprehension: Focus on Metacognitive Strategies and Gender

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (7) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Mina Taheri ◽  
Saeed Taki
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Listening Comprehension ◽  
Standard Test ◽  
Metacognitive Strategies ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Listening Strategies ◽  
Experimental Group

This study aimed at investigating the effect of dictogloss on EFL learners’ listening comprehension as well as on their use of metacognitive listening strategies with a focus on the effects on male and female learners. To this end, a total number of 50 female and male Iranian EFL learners, aged between 12 and 15 years old, at the intermediate proficiency level in a private language school in Iran were selected and randomly assigned to experimental and control groups with 25 male and female learners in each group. Dictogloss was employed to teach the learners in the experimental group for an instruction period of 12 sessions. Participants’ listening comprehension was determined through a pre/posttest which was adapted from the listening section of the standard test of PET and their use of metacognitive listening strategies via the MALQ, a questionnaire developed by Vandergrift et al. (2006). The data obtained were submitted to the t-test and results revealed significant improvement in the experimental group’s listening comprehension with no significant difference between male and female learners. Finally, the results showed that the listeners in the experimental group made noticeable gains in their choice of metacognitive strategies through using the dictogloss technique.  Findings are discussed in light of recent theories of language learning and teaching.  

scholarly journals Incorporating Culture into Listening Comprehension Through Presentation of Movies

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 54
Author(s):  
Kusumarasdyati Kusumarasdyati
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Prior Knowledge ◽  
Listening Comprehension ◽  
Listening Skills ◽  
Written Form ◽  
Instructional Aid ◽  
Target Culture

The use of movie videos as an instructional aid in the teaching of English as a foreign language (EFL) should be encouraged due to various pedagogical benefits. This article attempts to suggest a technique of utilizing movies in English listening classes in order to improve the aural perception skills of the learners. It comprises three stages:previewing, viewing, and postviewing. In the previewing stage, learners read a bried description of the theme of the movies to activate their prior knowledge, guess the meaning of certain keywords presented in sentential contexts, or familiarize-either with or without any subtitles-and while doing so they are supposed to answer several questions in written form. Finally, the learners are enganged into a postviewing activity in the form of contrasting cultures reflected in the movies. This technique of teaching listening has proved to be effective in developing listening skills in a foreign language and sentizing them to the target culture, which is an inseparable aspect of language learning.

scholarly journals Examining the Effect of Listening Strategy Instruction on EFL Iraqi learners’ Listening Anxiety

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shiva Kaivanpanah ◽  
Sayyed Mohammad Alavi ◽  
Hussein AL-Shammari
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Strategy Instruction ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Listening Anxiety ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Based Instruction ◽  
Teaching Of Listening ◽  
Listening Strategies ◽  
And Control

The present study examined the effect of process-based listening strategy instruction on decreasing the learners’ listening anxiety level, and the relationship between listening anxiety (LA) and listening comprehension (LC). The participants consisted of sixty sophomore Iraqi learners who were studying English as a Foreign Language (EFL) at the Department of English at the University of Kufa, Iraq. They were divided into experimental (n=30) and control(n=30) groups. The experimental group received explicit, and integrated listening strategies instruction based on Siegel’s model of process-based listening strategy instruction (2015). The control group received the conventional teaching of listening without receiving any training in strategy process-based instruction over a semester (ten weeks). A modified version of the Foreign Language listening Anxiety Scale (FLLAS) developed by Elkhafaifi (2005) was taken by the participants once before and once after the intervention to measure their LA. The listening section of the Preliminary English Test (PET) used to measure the learners’ LC before and after the intervention. Findings showed that listening strategy instruction could decrease learners’ LA. Furthermore, a negative relationship found between LA and LC. The paper concluded with some useful pedagogical implications, and suggestions for further research are discussed based on the findings for researchers, teachers, and educators within the constraints of the Iraqi context.

scholarly journals TEACHING LISTENING COMPREHENSION AT A NON-LINGUISTIC UNIVERSITY: FACILITATION THROUGH INTERNALIZATION OF CONNECTED ENGLISH SPEECH FEATURES

2018 ◽  
pp. 183-189
Author(s):  
I. N. Kosheleva
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Listening Comprehension ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Listening Skills ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Phonological Features

Listening is not only one of the most important language skills, which is necessary for everyday communication, but an integral part  of foreign language learning. It is evident that the students need an  effective training in building auditory skills. However, proper  attention is seldom paid to the process of listening to the English  speech, altering phoneme recognition in the stream of speech, which  often causes difficulties in audio-comprehension. The subject  of this research is facilitation of teaching listening comprehension to  the students of non-linguistic universities. The purpose of the article is to identify the core phonological features of coherent  English speech and provide the examples of activities aimed at their  recognition. The methodological framework of the conducted  research is represented by bottom-up approach to teaching listening  and the tenet that speech perception and comprehension by ear is a  process. Therefore, the ability to correctly decode phonemes, words,  phrases and infer meaning plays an utmost role. In thiscontext the students’ wrong answers should be analyzed, it contributes to determining the point of misunderstanding. It is  shown that making students aware of phonological features  of  coherent English speech helps them to overcome difficulties in  audiotext perception and thus enhances teaching listening  comprehension. The results of the research can be of interest to  both foreign language teachers and to the researchers dealing with  English phonetics learning. Finally, the conclusions are drawn that a  successful development of listening skills requires a combination of  the bottom-up and top-down approaches. This enables teaching staff  to create favorable conditions for acquisition of one of the most challenging language skills.

scholarly journals The Effect of Listening Strategy Instruction on Iranian Pre-intermediate EFL Learners’ Listening ability

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 188
Author(s):  
Farzaneh Ghaed sharaf ◽  
Melika Mobaraki ◽  
Maryam Rabani Nia
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Listening Comprehension ◽  
Lesson Plan ◽  
Strategy Instruction ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Listening Ability ◽  
Listening Strategies ◽  
Age Range

Listening comprehension plays an important role in the process of language learning as it is one of the four major skills in language acquisition. This study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of listening strategy instruction on improving listening comprehension of Iranian EFL learners. To achieve this goal, forty students studying at Birjand University were participated in the current study. All of thestudents were within the age range of 18 to 22. Then, they were non-randomly divided into two groups, as a control and an experimental group. Theexperimental was taught based on a guide lesson plan regarding listening strategies while the control group did not receive any treatment. The listening section of TOEFL was utilized to measure the listening performance of the participants before and after the treatment. The results of Independent Samples Test indicated thatinstructing listening strategies had no significant impact onlistening comprehension of Iranian pre-intermediate EFL learners.

scholarly journals The Effects of Audio Comedy Test on Listening Comprehension Skills of EFL Learners

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 90
Author(s):  
Anton Subarno ◽  
Wen-Fu Pan ◽  
Mei-Ying Chien
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Listening Comprehension ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Listening Skills ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Practice Tests ◽  
Comprehension Skills ◽  
English Listening Test ◽  
Senior Students

<p class="Abstract"><em>This study aims to investigate the effects of audio comedy on English listening comprehension test results of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners. The English listening test comprises four sections; each section has a seven-minute comedy audio mode and 13 questions, and participants listen to the four sections successively. This study was conducted with 117 sophomore, junior and senior students at Sebelas Maret University in Indonesia. Two-way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was adopted to distinguish between male and female students on the four successive test sections measuring English listening comprehension skills. The findings are: 1. Successive practice tests will stimulate English listening skills; and 2. Successive practice tests will improve students’ English listening skills. The comedy audio mode creates a low-stress English listening atmosphere and reduces the learner’s anxiety.</em></p>

scholarly journals Benefits of using a mobile application in learning a foreign language

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (40) ◽  
pp. 55-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Bustillo ◽  
Claribel Rivera ◽  
Juan Genaro Guzmán ◽  
Lizeth Ramos Acosta
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Listening Comprehension ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Teaching Strategy ◽  
Listening Skills ◽  
Teaching Assessment

This article aims to show how the use of a mobile application contributes to the development of listening comprehension in English as a teaching strategy to generate significant learning. The research was conducted with a group of level A1 students, according to Common European Framework for Languages: Learning, Teaching, Assessment, who used Duolingo during an academic semester. The results indicate that the use of this application achieves a positive impact on the development of listening skills in English.

Strategies to Support the Enhancement of Listening Comprehension (A Case of Ishik University English Preparatory School

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Naci YILDIZ
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Oral Communication ◽  
Listening Skills ◽  
Preparatory School ◽  
Comprehension Skills ◽  
Comprehensible Input ◽  
The One ◽  
Listening Strategies ◽  
Listening Process

Teaching listening while dealing with a foreign language has largely been neglected, as, on the one hand, it has been expected that L1 listening strategies would be automatically transferred on L2 and, on the other hand, as listening skills are sophisticated, hence, difficult to investigate and teach. However, as the skill which is prerequisite for two-sided oral communication and as a valuable source of comprehensible input, listening deserves much more attention than has got until today, either in teaching practice or in research. This study attempts to show the influence of developing learners’ listening strategies on the improvement of their comprehension skills. In an experimental study with 40 students at Ishik University (Iraq) it was found that the use of strategies in the listening process considerably enhanced the achievement of learners.

scholarly journals The Perception of Fifth Semester Students in Learning Listening Strategies at Widya Gama Mahakam Samarinda University in Academic Year 2016/2017

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 108
Author(s):  
Maimunah Rani Fitri
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Listening Comprehension ◽  
English Department ◽  
Listening Skills ◽  
Social Strategies ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Listening Strategies ◽  
Academic Year

The listening skills is viewed as an important skill to master, because from listening we can understand what are people saying, we can get the meaning of every words that speaker talk about, and it is important in process of listening comprehension. The Objective of this research is to find out the perception of fifth semester students of Widya Gama Mahakam Samarinda University in learning listening comprehension. In this research the main theories from Gay (2006) and from (Howitt &amp; Cramer, 2009). The researcher uses Descriptive Quantitative research. The subject of this study was the fifth semester students of English Department at Widya Gama Mahakam Samarinda University. The researcher uses a questionnaire as an instrument to collect the data, and then representing the data in analysis and concluding the result of analysis. The result of questionnaire showed that students perception toward the strategies in learning listening were 12 students or 171% very often used Social strategies, 15 students or 171% often used Affective and Compensation strategies.<strong> </strong>

scholarly journals THE CORRELATION BETWEEN LISTENING STRATEGIES USED BY 4TH SEMESTER STUDENTS OF UNRIKA AND THEIR LISTENING COMPREHENSION

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
Aulia Putri ◽  
Desi Surlitasari Dewi
Keyword(s):  
Listening Comprehension ◽  
English Education ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Listening Skills ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Correlational Design ◽  
Dominant Strategies ◽  
Education Study ◽  
Listening Strategies

This study aimed to find out the most dominant listening strategies used by the students and to determine the correlation between the use of listening strategies and their listening comprehension. The type of the research was quantitative with correlational design. This study used a population of the 4th semester students of English Education Study Program, University of Riau Kepulauan, in which the sample was selected by total sampling technique. Data were collected by using listening strategy questionnaire and listening test. To analyze the data, descriptive statistics (Mean and Standard Deviation) were used to find out the most dominant strategies to the ones that were rarely used by students in completing listening comprehension task. Second, to find out whether or not  there was a significant correlation between listening strategies used and listening skills, the data were analyzed by  using Pearson Correlation to determine the correlation between two variables, listening strategies and listening comprehension.

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