The effects of listening education with note taking to listening skills of 7th grade students

The purpose of this study is to develop 7th Grades students? listening skills through taking notes by listening technique.This study was applied in Semiha İsen Primary School and Elmadağ Kurtuluş Primary School. Participants in this study consisted of 102 7th Grades students studying in these schools. These students were asked to listen to the text and then answer the questions in the Listening Test in order to determine their level of listening. Experts were consulted in the process of the selection of the text and the preparation of the Listening Test. The students? answers were evaluated by the researcher and the second observer through the answer key and analysed using SPSS 18.0.In this study, pre test and post test control group experimental method was used. After pre-test applications, the students who were in the experimental group were educated for the skills of taking notes by listening for ten weeks. However; the control group students continued their lessons as usual. After all these studies, a post test was applied in both of the groups. The text and the Listening Test in the post test was the same as the pre-test.The findings obtained from this study are as follows:The level of the students? listening skills are evaluated by all of the questions in the Listening Test and it is observed that the scores of the experimental group in the post test are significantly higher than the scores of their pre-test.The scores of the experimental group in the post test are also significantly higher than the control group except two questions (the fourth and the fifth questions).The level of the students? listening skills are examined in terms of their total scores and it is observed that the total post test score averages of the experimental group are significantly higher than the total post test score averages of the control group.According to the findings obtained in this study; training for the skills of taking notes by listening is observed to be significantly important.Keywords: Note Taking Technique with Listening, Listening Skills, Listening Activities, 7. Grade Students