Strategies Applied By IELTS Candidates In Listening Skills

Abstract

This research work entitled Strategies Applied by IELTS Candidates in Listening Skills is an attempt to analyze and describe the various strategies used by IELTS candidates in listening skill. In this study,I explored strategies and techniques used by IELTS candidates especially in listening section. Forty IELTS candidates were selected using purposive non-random sampling procedure.I collected the data from four different institutes of Kathmandu valley. The required data were collected by using questionnaire. Both primary and secondary data have been usedin the study. The finding of this research shows that the strategies used while listening skill in IELTS test were different from students to students;there were several issues during listening test for students regarding better understand of what the audio speaks; the problems were involved in prosodic features of word and sentence level;they faced problems in unfamiliar topics; not only these factors,but also time management was also a great burden for IELTS test–takers;listen word by word, listen for detail information, focuses on new words were their listening strategies during IELT Stest. This study consists of five chapters.The chapter one provides theoretical input for listening skill especially in IELTS.This chapter deals with background and developmental history of IELTS and prevailing strategies of teaching listening skill.The chapter two in corporate with the review of related literature, empirical literature, implication of the review of the study, and conceptual framework. Similarly, chapter three consults with the research methodology adopted for the study in which source of data, sampling procedure, tools and techniques for data collection, process of data collection,areas/ field of the study, sources of data, analysis and interpretation of data has included. Likewise, chapter four indicates with the analysis and results of all students’ response on strategies used by them while listening skill. Chapter five deals with the research conclusion and implication based on the analysis and interpretation of the data.References and appendices are also included at the end of this work to make it more valid.