IMPACT OF AUTHENTIC MATERIALS ON THE LISTENING COMPREHENSION PERFORMANCE OF SENIOR SECONDARY STUDENTS IN NORTH- WEST ZONE, NIGERIA
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The study investigated the impact of authentic materials on the listening comprehension of senior secondary students in North- West Zone, Nigeria. The design of this study was a pre-test post-test of quasi experimental. The population for the study consisted of all the senior secondary schools students in North- west zone, Nigeria. Purposive sampling technique was used to select SSII students who served as the sample for the study. The samples were in two intact classes, one for the experimental group and the other control group. The instrument used in collecting data was listening comprehension test. The data collected were analyzed using mean and standard deviations to answer the research questions raised while independent samples t-test was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Findings of the study revealed that authentic materials had significant impact on the experimental group students’ listening comprehension performance at identifying specific information. The result of the study further revealed no significant impact of authentic materials on making inference, however the experimental group students’ mean score was higher compared to students in the control group. Based on the findings, it was recommended that teachers utilize authentic materials to exposure students to use of English language in real life context in order to stimulate active involvement in the listening class and improve students listening comprehension.
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