Role of News-clips for Effective Listening Comprehension

Abstract

The present study entitled 'Role of News-Clips for Effective Listening Comprehension' aims to find out the achievement in the listening comprehension by the application of News-clips. The study was carried out using both primary and secondary sources of data. For primary data the tenth grade students of a government aided secondary school were taught listening through News-clips. Altogether 40 students were selected as sample and they were taught listening on the basis of recorded News-clips. Seven recorded News-clips along with some exercises were chosen for the teaching. The sampling procedure was purposive because of availability of the students. Apre-test was administered to the selected students in the beginning. Then three progressive tests were conducted in the interval of 6 class periods of each. The test items administered for the post tests were the ones given to the pre -test.They were taught twenty periods of together. The average score of all the test items were calculated. The results of the tests were compared to find out the role of News clips for their effective listening comprehension. It was found that news-clips were more effective materials than usual classroom materials in teaching listening at secondary level. This thesis is dividend into four chapters.The first chapter consists of background, definition of language, language skills,listening skill, what does it mean to really listen? Components or aspects of listening skill, teaching listening, materials for teaching listening and role of mass media in teaching listening. The origin of action research, its definition and process have also been mentioned in this chapter. The final part of this chapter is review of the related literature, objectives and significance of the study. The second chapter deals with the sources of data, sample population,sampling procedure, research tools and procedures for data collection. This chapter also states the limitations of the study. The third chapter presents analysis and interpretations. The fourth chapter consists of the findings and recommendations based on the analysis and interpretation of data. References and appendices are attached at the end of this chapter