1. Factors affecting the listening skill Presenter: Leya Tsai Instructor: Dr. Pi-Ying Teresa Hsu May 11, 2010

3. Contents Methodology Results Reflection Conclusion Introduction 1 2 3 4 5

7. Methodology Methodology Location : 4 schools in Turkey Filling in questionnaire Taking listening comprehension test Participants: 265 fifth graders

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10. Listening Comprehension Test A Success Story One text from All the World Magazine

11. Listening Comprehension Test Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Criteria for questions Finding explicit ideas from the text Finding implicit ideas from the text Relating the themes in the text to personal knowledge and experience Analyze and evaluate the elements, content and language of the text

12. Instruments Questions related to 24 variables that were considered to affect the listening skill Questionnaire 5-likert scale Strongly agree Strongly disagree 1 5

13. Questionnaire 24 variables 1. Mother’s education 2. Father’s education 3. The number of books at home 4. The number of books read within one month 24. Computer …………………………………… .

14. Data Analysis Mother’s education Father’s education The number of books at home Students’ listening comprehension achievement X 1 X 2 X 3 Y Multiple Regression Analysis X1 ~X24 : independent variables Y: dependent variable

15. Dummy variable Dummy variable Original variable 0 1 0 1 0 1 Note: “1” is “Yes” “ 0” is “No” edu1 edu2 Master University Senior high school

16. Results Students’ listening comprehension achievement decreases as their fathers’ education and their computer usage time increase. Father’s education Computer

17. Results the number of books at home the number of books read within one month Students’ listening comprehension achievement increases as the number of books at home and the number of books read within one month increase.

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