Comprehensive Analysis on the Listening Competence of Grade-10 Students: Basis for a Proposed Listening Enhancement Program

Jose Gregorio  Lanuza,

Comprehensive Analysis on the Listening Competence of Grade-10 Students: Basis for a Proposed Listening Enhancement Program

Discipline: Education

Abstract:

This study was primarily conducted to propose a listening enhancement program for Grade 10 students of Ismael Mathay Sr. High School based on their listening performance as well as the factors that affect the said performance during the academic year 2019-2020. The respondents of the study were the 183 Grade 10 students who were selected using a random quota sampling technique. These respondents listened to eight listening materials and answered a forty-item validated listening test focusing on the four listening skill namely: noting details, making inferences, getting the gist and drawing conclusion. Similarly, they also accomplished a survey questionnaire on the factors that affect their listening performance.Descriptive method of research was employed to explain and discuss the listening performance of the respondents in the four cited skills. Statistical treatments such as frequency count, percentage and weighted mean were utilized to analyze and interpret the data gathered. After the conduct of the study, it was found out that students perform well in a listening activity if they jot down notes which they also use to answer comprehension questions that require higher listening skills. Factors such as environmental, personal and instructional affected the listening performance of the students to a greater extent. The results and findings of the study were used as basis for a proposed listening enhancement program for Grade 10 students in the second semester of academic year 2019-2020.

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