The relationship between listening understanding, listening attitudes and personal variables

In this study, primary school 4th grade students' listening comprehension, attitudes towards listening and age, gender, mother's education level, father's education level, school they attended, It is aimed to reveal the relationships between personal variables such as Turkish course grade and finding oneself successful in Turkish course and to determine whether this relationship is meaningful or not. The study group of this research consists of 350 primary school 4th grade students studying at Antalya province Gülveren Primary School, Siteler Primary School and Emel Sevgi Taner Primary School in the 2022-2023 academic year. The personal information form created by the researcher, the Listening Attitude Scale developed by Katrancı (2012), and Kılınç's (2015) Informative Text Achievement Test and Narrative Text Achievement Tests were used to collect the data of the study. SPSS 23.0 package program, one of the statistical package programs, was used to enter, store, organize and analyze the data on the computer. In the analysis of the data, whether the demographic variables, scale sub-dimensions and scale total values were normally distributed or not was determined according to the Skewness and Kurtosis values. In addition, Mann-Whitney U test, one-way analysis of variance, Tukey and Dunnett's C tests from Post Hoc tests were used. Pearson and Spearman correlation tests were used to determine whether there was a statistically significant relationship between continuous variables. As a result of the study, the listening comprehension skills of primary school 4th grade students did not differ significantly according to their gender and age. Informative and Narrative Text Achievement Test scores of students differ significantly according to their parents' education levels and schools. It has been calculated that there are low-level, positive and significant relationships between the students' informative text achievement test scores and their Turkish course success grades. Primary school 4th grade students' attitudes towards listening differed significantly according to their genders and their success in Turkish lessons. Primary school 4th grade students' attitudes towards listening differed significantly according to their genders and their success in Turkish lessons. In the study, primary school 4th grade students' attitude scores towards listening did not show significant differences according to their schools and educational status of their parents. It has been calculated that there is a low-level, positive and significant relationship between the scores of the 4th grade students in the Attitudes towards Listening Scale and their Turkish course success grades. It has been calculated that there is a significant relationship between the students' Attitudes Towards Listening Scale scores and their Informative and Narrative Text Achievement Test scores. In addition, it was observed that there was a moderate, positive and significant relationship between the Informative Text Test scores and the Narrative Text Test scores. Finally, the findings were discussed and recommendations were made.