Influence of participative listening on listening comprehension skills of 5th grade students

The aim of this research is identifying Influence of Participative listening on listening comprehension skills of 5th grade students consisting planned activities. Experimental design, which has pre testpost test controlled group, is used while collecting, analyzing and interpreting the data gathered by this way. The study has corried out with 40 students consists of experimental and control groups in 5-A 5-B classes of Köprüören Middle School students in 2013-2014 Educational year located in city center. Listening comprehensive test is applied to the controlled group for pre-test and post-test. According to the pre test scores it is determined that listening skills of experimental and control groups are similar. After the pre-test, participative listening training has given for ten weeks. The lesson of experimental group has given with the activities designed as part of participative listening. On the other hand the control group lessons are designed as part of Turkish lesson syllabus. Different types of activities are given in the research. In the conclusion of the study Wilcoxon signedranks test, mann-whitney U test frequency and percentage analyseare used on the data gathered quantitatively. Examining the data it is seen that; experimental points average are 29.30, controlled groups' average are 11.70. According to this conclusion, results are increased on behalf of the experimental groups. Participative listening has positive effect on the test group students' listening acquisition in Turkish syllabus. Key Words: Listening, listening skill, listening types, participative listening, secondary school