Cover Image

A survey on first-year students’ opinions concerning causes of their low performance in listening in the English II course at Thaksin University, Phatthalung

This study attempts to survey Thaksin University’ (Phatthalung Campus) first-year students’ opinions concerning the causes of their low performance in the listening component of the English II course. Two hundred and sixty-four students of the Faculties of Science, Public Health and Sport Science, a...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bennui, Pairote
Format: Book Section
Language:English
Published: Faculty of Communication and Modern Languages, Universiti Utara Malaysia 2007
Subjects:
LB2300 Higher Education
PE English
Online Access:http://repo.uum.edu.my/3266/1/P1.pdf
http://repo.uum.edu.my/3266/
http://staf.uum.edu.my/tleia2/
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
id my.uum.repo.3266
record_format eprints
spelling my.uum.repo.32662011-05-30T02:05:10Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/3266/ A survey on first-year students’ opinions concerning causes of their low performance in listening in the English II course at Thaksin University, Phatthalung Bennui, Pairote LB2300 Higher Education PE English This study attempts to survey Thaksin University’ (Phatthalung Campus) first-year students’ opinions concerning the causes of their low performance in the listening component of the English II course. Two hundred and sixty-four students of the Faculties of Science, Public Health and Sport Science, and Technology and Community Development were chosen as the research subjects. A student questionnaire, the only instrument for gathering the data, was used to explore the students’ opinions by considering six factors that may have caused low listening performance: students’ L2 prior knowledge, students’ motivation, students’ learning strategies, the teachers’ teaching methods,classroom environment, and classroom facilities. The SPSS program was used to analyze the quantitative data while the teaching researcher’s discussion was used to describe the qualitative data. The findings revealed that from the total results or the means of the six factors, the students disagreed with the six factors causing their low listening performance. However, considering the mean of each sub factor, there were other six sub-factors, under the students’ prior L2 knowledge and the students’ learning strategies factors, the students agreed as the causes of their low listening performance. Moreover, the majority of the students, 29.11%, agreed that the native speakers’ rate of speech in the CD-ROM was the other additional factor causing their low listening performance. As a result, the English II course teachers should realize the two factors and additional factor above before the rest of the four factors when teaching listening skills in order to solve the students’ listening problems in the right way. Faculty of Communication and Modern Languages, Universiti Utara Malaysia 2007 Book Section PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://repo.uum.edu.my/3266/1/P1.pdf Bennui, Pairote (2007) A survey on first-year students’ opinions concerning causes of their low performance in listening in the English II course at Thaksin University, Phatthalung. In: The Second Biennial International Conference on Teaching and Learning of English in Asia : Exploring New Frontiers (TELiA2), 14-16 June 2007, Holiday Villa Beach & Spa Resort, Langkawi. Faculty of Communication and Modern Languages, Universiti Utara Malaysia, Sintok, pp. 1-15. ISBN 978-983-42061-2-3 http://staf.uum.edu.my/tleia2/
institution Universiti Utara Malaysia
building UUM Library
collection Institutional Repository
continent Asia
country Malaysia
content_provider Universiti Utara Malaysia
content_source UUM Institutionali Repository
url_provider http://repo.uum.edu.my/
language English
topic LB2300 Higher Education
PE English
spellingShingle LB2300 Higher Education
PE English
Bennui, Pairote
A survey on first-year students’ opinions concerning causes of their low performance in listening in the English II course at Thaksin University, Phatthalung
description This study attempts to survey Thaksin University’ (Phatthalung Campus) first-year students’ opinions concerning the causes of their low performance in the listening component of the English II course. Two hundred and sixty-four students of the Faculties of Science, Public Health and Sport Science, and Technology and Community Development were chosen as the research subjects. A student questionnaire, the only instrument for gathering the data, was used to explore the students’ opinions by considering six factors that may have caused low listening performance: students’ L2 prior knowledge, students’ motivation, students’ learning strategies, the teachers’ teaching methods,classroom environment, and classroom facilities. The SPSS program was used to analyze the quantitative data while the teaching researcher’s discussion was used to describe the qualitative data. The findings revealed that from the total results or the means of the six factors, the students disagreed with the six factors causing their low listening performance. However, considering the mean of each sub factor, there were other six sub-factors, under the students’ prior L2 knowledge and the students’ learning strategies factors, the students agreed as the causes of their low listening performance. Moreover, the majority of the students, 29.11%, agreed that the native speakers’ rate of speech in the CD-ROM was the other additional factor causing their low listening performance. As a result, the English II course teachers should realize the two factors and additional factor above before the rest of the four factors when teaching listening skills in order to solve the students’ listening problems in the right way.
format Book Section
author Bennui, Pairote
author_facet Bennui, Pairote
author_sort Bennui, Pairote
title A survey on first-year students’ opinions concerning causes of their low performance in listening in the English II course at Thaksin University, Phatthalung
title_short A survey on first-year students’ opinions concerning causes of their low performance in listening in the English II course at Thaksin University, Phatthalung
title_full A survey on first-year students’ opinions concerning causes of their low performance in listening in the English II course at Thaksin University, Phatthalung
title_fullStr A survey on first-year students’ opinions concerning causes of their low performance in listening in the English II course at Thaksin University, Phatthalung
title_full_unstemmed A survey on first-year students’ opinions concerning causes of their low performance in listening in the English II course at Thaksin University, Phatthalung
title_sort survey on first-year students’ opinions concerning causes of their low performance in listening in the english ii course at thaksin university, phatthalung
publisher Faculty of Communication and Modern Languages, Universiti Utara Malaysia
publishDate 2007
url http://repo.uum.edu.my/3266/1/P1.pdf
http://repo.uum.edu.my/3266/
http://staf.uum.edu.my/tleia2/
_version_ 1644278456432721920
score 13.211869

Similar Items