DEVELOPMENT OF EXTENSIVE LISTENING ACTIVITIES FOR LISTENING COMPREHENSION OF THAI SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS
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This study aimed to 1) investigate the effects of extensive listening on English listening comprehension of Thai secondary students and 2) examine how students listen via extensive listening instruction. Eighteen students from a public secondary school who enrolled in the elective subject were chosen to participate in the 10-week-instruction by convenient sampling. The instruments used to collect data were a listening comprehension test to assess students’ listening comprehension for quantitative data, listening journals to explore how students practice English listening outside the classroom and semi-structured interviews to conduct in-depth data qualitatively. It can be concluded that 1) the post-test mean scores of the students from the listening comprehension test were higher than the pre-test mean scores of the students at a significant level (p < .05) with a large effect size (Cohen d = 1.09) and 2) students who achieved high gain scores reported greater rates of subtitles application, repeated listening strategy, and intrinsic motivation.
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