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The Study of Listening Comprehension Strategies Used by High School Teachers in Iran

كارشناسي ارشد

زبان و ادبيات انگليسي گرايش آموزش زبان انگليسي

پيام نور رشت

1398/11/05

132ص.

درجه ارزشيابي:خوب

فريدون وحداني

هدي ديوسر

Listening Comprehension , Teaching Listening Strategies , Students Problems

وحداني،فريدون،راهنما , ديوسر،هدي،مشاور

Students at high schools in Iran need to develop their listening skill by recognizing and overcoming the barriers in listening comprehension. Listening strategies and activities need to be applied because they help learners deal with incoming speech by comprehension. This study aimed to explore the extent to which high school teachers incorporate listening strategies and activities into teaching listening and perceive listening skill as a useful skill compared to other skills and sub skills. Moreover, the study sought to find out the difficulties encountered by students with listening lessons in high schools of Fardis, Iran. To this end, a questionnaire, teachers interviews, students interviews and an observation were devised. Thirty EFL teachers who teaching in public high schools completed the questionnaire, ten classes were observed for three sessions each and ten teachers’ interviews and a study on students’ books and exams were conducted in ten public high schools and ten students participated in the study. The data collected through the questionnaire were analysed using the Statistical Packages for Social Science (SPSS, Version 10.0). Frequencies, percentages were calculated for the first part of the questionnaire to answer the first research question and means and standard deviation to analyse the second part of the questionnaire to answer the second research question. Observation and interview results were analysed by clustering and descripting the data. Results revealed that while at least two thirds of listening teaching strategies commonly mentioned in the literature in pre-listening, while-listening, and post- listening stages were used by Iranian teachers, there was a lack of emphasis on listening skill in students’ final score and in schools’ curriculum. The result also revealed the problems students faced while listening. Accordingly, it was recommended that all the EFL teachers should feel responsible and use various types of teaching strategies as much as possible effectively and allocate enough time to teach this skill and help students to improve it and overcome its difficulties.

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