Listening Proficiency of Bachelor Level Students Based on Toefl Test

Abstract

The present study entitled Listening Proficiency of Bachelor Level Students Based on TOEFL Test presents a clear picture of the bachelor level students’ listening proficiency in TOEFL based test. The study aimed to find out the proficiency of bachelor level students in the listening skill in terms of: identifying the topic and main idea, listening for details, determining attitude and purpose, making inferences and predictions, categorizing information and summarizing topics. To carry out this study, 30 bachelor level students were selected as the sample. The sample was selected by using purposive non-random sampling procedure. Test items were used as the tools for data collection. The collected data had been analyzed and interpreted both descriptively and statistically for qualitative data, item analysis was adopted and for quantitative data, percentage and frequency were used to analyze and interpret.The findings of the study showed that a good majority of the students became able to identifying the topic. Similarly, many of the students could not categorize the information, however, a good majority of them made inferences and predictions and very few of them summarized the text after listening. The overall proficiency of them was below the average. The students felt difficulty in the exercise related to the listening conversation in comparison to listening to lecture class. This thesis has been subsumed under five chapters. The first chapter includes the introduction with background of the study, problem statement, objectives, research question, significance, delimitations and operational definitions of the key terms. The second chapter includes the review of both theoretical and empirical literature, implications of the review for the study and conceptual framework. The third chapter is the discussion of methods and procedures of the study. The fourth chapter is about analysis and interpretation of the data and the summary of the findings. Finally, chapter five presents the conclusion and recommendations. The recommendations are further presented in policy, practice and further research related aspects. The chapter is followed by references and appendices used in the study.