The Effect of Using Some Active Learning Techniques on Developing Primary Pupils’ Listening Skills

Abstract

The present study aimed at investigating the effect of a strategy based on some Active Learning Techniques on developing the listening comprehension skills of Fifth year primary stage students. The tool of the research was a pre post listening test that is suitable for the fifth year primary students and approved by a panel of jury (EFL specialists). Two Fifth year primary classes were randomly selected from Saqr Qurish School for basic education in the academic year 2012-2013. Each class consisted of 35 students. One class was taught through a strategy based on Active Learning Techniques to represent the experimental group and the other class received regular instruction to represent the control group. A pre-post listening comprehension test was given to both groups before and after the treatment. The results provided support for the hypotheses of the study and showed evidence that there was statistically significant differences at 0.01 level between the mean scores of the experimental group students and the control group students on the post administration of the pre/post-test in favor of the experimental group, it showed improvement in the experimental group students' performance on the listening comprehension post administration. Besides, there was a positive correlation, statistically significant at 0.01 level between the scores of the experimental group on the listening comprehension post test. It was concluded that the strategy based on the Active Learning Approach showed its effectiveness on improving Fifth year primary stage students ' listening comprehension skills.