A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF LISTENING SKILLS OF SECOND YEAR BSC (PHYSICS) STUDENTS USING TEACHING LISTENING MODELS

Abstract

Listening skill is one of the important skills in teaching English Proficiency as it helps create effective communication. It can also be regarded as a primary source for learning a language. Since before, students can read or write in a language, listening is used as an input. Teachers should teach their students to be able to listen actively. They should be trained to listen effectively so that they can understand and respond. In Myanmar, teaching listening skills has not been given much attention both at high school level and at tertiary level except some universities like the University of Yangon, Yangon University of Foreign Languages and National Management Degree College which use Listening Section in the examination. English textbooks prescribed in government school do not include listening exercises. In addition, the medium of instruction in classrooms is Myanmar and therefore students do not get exposure to listening in English. In this paper, the importance is selecting teaching listening models is illustrated. Students attending Second Year BSc (Physics) were chosen as subjects. Teaching listening models were used to teach these students listening. Moreover, self-designed model for teaching listening skillls is also used and the outcomes of students who were taught using different models were presented. The variables of the results were used to prove that various teaching listening models can come up with different results