LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 15:2 February 2015
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
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Second Language Listening – Investigating Self-supporting Needs

M. Saravanapava Iyer, Ph.D.

Abstract

In most of the ESL classrooms in Sri Lanka among four basic language skills, Listening Comprehension (LC) is almost neglected due to many practical reasons; in some classrooms LC is conducted; but the achievement rate is not satisfactory; to recognize part of the solution for this problem, the primary objective of this investigation was to recognize the peculiar listening comprehension (LC) issues encountered by the Tamil medium first year undergraduates in the Faculty of Arts during transactional listening and suggest feasible and effective recommendations for the stakeholders based on classroom investigation. In order to accomplish this objective, 27 Tamil medium ESL first year listeners were randomly selected as sample population in the Faculty of Arts and a classroom investigation employing an intervention programme for one complete semester was conducted; the intervention programme incorporated some specially selected LC texts/activities, participant observation and verbal report.

Having employed qualitative methodology with the questionnaire, participant observation and retrospective report, this study, at the end, found out that the ESL listeners’ comprehension level progressed dramatically when training was provided with specially selected texts with appropriate support needs to match our listeners’ requirements.

Keywords: Listening Comprehension, Bottom-up, Top-down, Learning Style, Brain Dominance

1. Introduction

Basically second language classroom research relevant to four basic skills has evolved due to the influences of researches from many different fields, for example, education, psychology, anthropology, sociology, linguistics, and applied linguistics. At the outset, in the field of second language research, four conventions were accommodated according to Nunan (2005).

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Saravanabava, Ph.D.

M. Saravanapava Iyer, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer in ELT, Gr. I
English Language Teaching Centre
Faculty of Arts
University of Jaffna
Jaffna
Sri Lanka
bavaneltc@yahoo.com
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