Investigating the Role of Students' Improved Listening in Developing their Speaking Skills

Abstract

This study aimed at demonstrating Role of Students' Improved Listening in Developing their Speaking Skills. The study has adopted the descriptive analytical approach where (50) students were selected as study sample to the designed test and (30) teachers for the questionnaire. The researcher conducted oral test for the students and delivered questionnaire papers to the teachers. Corpora analysis was used in analyzing the data of the students while (SPSS) was used in analyzing the questionnaire. The study has reached into some findings; the most important ones are that: Developing listening strategies helps students a lot in terms of enriching vocabulary, grammar knowledge and idea organization. The more students listen, the more they improve in speaking skills. Most of the students show problem in using subject pronouns when they speak about themselves. They misuse for example, objective pronouns for subject pronouns. Students show sign of weakness in pronouncing words, especially (P….and th). These sounds are not found in their mother tongue.