The Effect of Using SomeCollaborative workStrategies on Developing the Third year English Department Students'critical Listening Skills

Abstract

Researcher' name: FatenAbdELRaoufBeheery Research title: The Effect of using Some Strategies based on Collaborative learning on the Third Year English Department Students, Critical Listening Skills. Supervisors:Dr. AsmaaGhanemGheith, professor of Curriculum and Instruction, Ain Shams University - Late Dr.Safinaz Mohamed Radwan, Professor Emerita of lingustics, English Department, Ain Shams University Abstract: the purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of three strategies based on collaborative work on developing third year English department students' critical listening skills. To achieve this purpose, a quasi experimental design was adopted. Sixty 3rd year English Department students participated in the study which took place in the academic year 2014-2015. They were randomly assigned to three experimental groups. Each group received training through a specific strategy based on collaborative learning. A critical listening skills checklist was designed and a critical listening test was developed and used as a pre-post test. Three proposed strategies (Captions, Imagery, and Multimodal processing) were developed by the researcher to develop these critical listening skills. The three strategies were taught over a period of three months. By the end of the experiment, a post-test was administrated to the three experimental groups to find the effect of the three strategies on developing the participants' critical listening. Quantitative data was collected from the students' scores on the pre/post tests and was analyzed using the convenient statistical techniques. Findings of the study indicated the effectiveness of the three strategies based on collaborative work in developing the participants' critical listening skills. Findings of the study are discussed and recommendations and suggestions for further research are stated.

Key words: critical listening, collaborative learning Captions, Imagery, and Multimodal processing.