Strategies Used in Teaching and Learning Listening

Abstract

This research work entitled Strategies Used in Teaching and Learning Listening is an attempt to investigate and analyze teachers’ and learners' strategies in teaching and learning listening lessons. It is both quantitive and qualitative inquiry, based on multi-method approach, descriptive and narrative analysis of the data. I collected data from 10 secondary schools of Tanahun district by using questionnaire for 40 students and 10 teachers. Three classes of each teacher were observed by using observation checklist. The findings of this research show that majority of the teachers taught listening lesson in the classroom. The teachers, who taught listening, did not use proper strategies while teaching listening lessons. The teaching listening strategies such as question answer activities, written exercises relevant to the topics and following instruction for the while listening activities were not found in the teaching listening classroom. The teachers used cassette player twice more, discussion about the situation before listening, asked their students to listen, summarized lesson, focused on important elements, giving background information and encouraged practice after teaching listening lessons. The students had faced problems in learning listening due to background knowledge and problems in materials. This study consists of four chapters. The first chapter provides theoretical input for strategies used in teaching and learning listening, review of related literature, significance of the study and objectives. Similarly, the second chapter deals with the research methodology adopted for the study in which the sources of data, sampling procedures, tools for data collection, processes of data collection and limitations of the study are included. Likewise, the third chapter deals with descriptive and quantitive analysis of the collected data. These are based on questionnaire for students and teacher, and classroom observation of teachers. The fourth chapter deals with the research findings and recommendations based on the analysis and interpretation of the data. This chapter is followed by reference and appendices.