The Correlation Between Elementary Students’ English Listening Skills and Their Interest in and Views on Learning English

• Authors: Nora Nimani Musa , Zoran Mihajlovski , Mateja Dagarin Fojkar

Abstracts

EN

This paper examines the relationship between students’ listening comprehension skills and their opinions and interest in learning English. The participants were 514 ninth-grade students in public elementary schools in the Republic of Kosovo. A standardised listening comprehension test was used to assess students’ listening skills, followed by a questionnaire covering a range of opinions and interest in learning English. The results indicate a significant positive correlation between proficiency in English listening and factors such as interest in learning English, perception of English as a motivating skill, and lower levels of learning difficulty. In addition, favouring a dedicated language school for learning English was found to be a significant factor in English listening proficiency.

Keywords

EN

developing listening skills; elementary school students; non-cognitive learning factors; foreign language acquisition

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: The New Educational Review
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 69
• Pages: 143-156

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Nora Nimani Musa

• University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

• https://orcid.org/000000024166583X

author

Zoran Mihajlovski

• Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, North Macedonia

• https://orcid.org/0000000176401482

author

Mateja Dagarin Fojkar

• University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

• https://orcid.org/0000000209531065

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/tner.2022.69.3.11

Biblioteka Nauki

2140618