The Necessity of Listening Skills in Improving Students' Performance in ESL

Abstract

This research is prepared to investigate the need of introducing listening skill to the curriculum because this skill in not included by the curriculum designer, in spite of its importance in improving of pronunciation and fluency. This why the researcher hypothesized that listening helps to improve student's spoken language, also can solve students problems in pronunciation and fluency. More -over listening to movies make the students more interested in learning. Sample was taken randomly from two governmental schools which are (Elgadeeda and Alahlia secondary schools for girls and boys respectively, to administer a questionnaire, (46) individuals each one is (23), which is been analyzed using SPSS package. There is an interview constructed to the teacher to support the need of listening, so this tool can lead to the results that drawn as is mentioned. Listening is important in improving pronunciation and fluency , the students need to learn English for their daily life activities to get knowledge and communicate effectively. More- over young learners who begin with good listening activities are successful students. Further-more listening to authentic English helps the students to read , write and speak well.