The Effect of Conventional Lab Using Audi Aids on Improving Students' Listening Comprehension

Abstract

This paper is investigating the effect of lab using audio aid in improving students' listening comprehension, which is done in Ahfad University for women. The researcher noticed a real problem in students' listening comprehension, therefore the objective of the study to provide a practical and experimental study of listening skill problem and to show the effect of audio labs effect on learning listening skill. The research method of the study was quasi- experimental using no probability convenience sample. The researcher chose two groups: an experimental group and control group. They both utilized from the same environment except the lab which is exclusively aided for the experimental group. The two groups from Ahfad University for women who were studying English as UPP. The experiment took 60 credit hours. The Pre-test reliability scored 0.918 and the post test was 0.95 and the result proves the hypothesis of the study lab using audio aid which showed positive effect on improving students' listening comprehension.