EFFECTS OF USING AUDIO-MATERIALS ON STUDENTS’ PERFORMANCE IN LISTENING COMPREHENSION IN SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN GWAGWALADA, ABUJA

Abstract

This study titled: ‘Effects of Using Audio-materials on Students’ Performance in Listening Comprehension in Senior Secondary Schools in Gwagwalada, Abuja’, adopted the descriptive survey design and quasi-experimental method of research design in the collection of sample opinions. The population comprised of all the 4,380 students of the 8 conventional public Senior Secondary Schools in the area. The simple random sampling technique was used to sample 100 SSS2 students from the population. The study used questionnaire and test to elicit information from respondents. The instruments were tested to ensure that they are valid and reliable for the study. The simple percentage, mean and t-test were used to analyze the data. After the analysis, the study found that the topic of the listening comprehension text used, audibility of teachers’ voice, clarity of the audio-materials used, type of audio-materials used, length of the listening comprehension text, oral form of assessment, written form of assessment, questioning as a teaching strategy, language of the listening text and the use of pictures, realia, audio-material and teaching methods are some of the specific problems affecting the effective teaching of listening comprehension in Senior Secondary Schools. The study also found that there is a significant difference in listening comprehension performance between students taught using audio-materials and those taught using classroom text at the literal, inferential and critical levels. Based on these findings, the study recommends that government at all levels and school management should ensure that adequate and quality audio-materials such as tape-recorder, language laboratory, microphone, radio, ear phones etc. are provided for teachers and students, in order to ensure effective teaching and learning of listening comprehension, teachers should ensure that audio-materials are used in the teaching of listening comprehension in Senior Secondary Schools and as well as adopt basic strategies for approaching literal, inferential and critical level of listening comprehension.