A Study on Problems Students Encounter in Listening to Lectures and Note-Taking With Reference to Wro. Siheen College of Business and Management
| dc.contributor.advisor | Banteyirga, Hailom (PhD) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Getahun, Fantaye | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-03-10T07:58:59Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-09T04:04:34Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-03-10T07:58:59Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-09T04:04:34Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2007-02 | |
| dc.description.abstract | College students need strong oral comprehension skills for access to oral content in their academic classes. The researcher's increasing involvement with the students at Wro. Siheen College of Business and Management revealed their overall difficulty m comprehending and recalling information from oral content lectures. In this study, problems students encounter in listening to lectures and note-taking was examined. The required data for the study were collected using content analysis, questionnaires and interviews. The content of all the fourteen listening section of the course books were analyzed using a checklist. Seven English language instructors and seventy-one students of the college responded the items of the questionnaires fully. Among the seven instructors, three of them were willing to be interviewed and put forward some additional information regarding the content of the listening texts, teaching strategies and the problems they observed in their students when they presented listening comprehension lessons. Then, using frequency percentages, descriptive analysis was employed to analyze the responses given to each item in the questionnaire, and the findings of the interview was analyzed qualitatively. The _ analysis revealed that the students partly used ineffective strategies in listening comprehension. Besides, they had considerable problems in comprehending lectures and note-taking. Although the listening texts lack distinctive features of spoken language, most of them are intended to help students practice note-taking skills. Finally, it has been recommended that training should be given to students in skill areas such as listening comprehension strategies, for example, paying attention to overall message rather than listening to every single word to come to better understanding to the text. Moreover, instructors need to ensure that they speak at a normal speech rate in order to enhance effective listening comprehension in students. Likewise, instructors should be trained to insert many more overt discourse markers that highlight the overall structure of their lectures. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/25364 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | en_US |
| dc.subject | Problems | en_US |
| dc.subject | Students | en_US |
| dc.subject | Listening | en_US |
| dc.subject | Lectures | en_US |
| dc.title | A Study on Problems Students Encounter in Listening to Lectures and Note-Taking With Reference to Wro. Siheen College of Business and Management | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |