Academic Listening Skills of the International University Students in Turkey

Autor/inn/en	Elli?alti, Mevlüt; Batur, Zekerya
Titel	Academic Listening Skills of the International University Students in Turkey
Quelle	In: International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 9 (2021) 3, S.20-28 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2202-9478
Schlagwörter	Listening Skills; Skill Development; Difficulty Level; Academic Language; Turkish; Foreign Students; College Students; Self Efficacy; Academic Achievement; Student Characteristics; Public Colleges; Young Adults; Foreign Countries; Turkey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kompetenzentwicklung; Qualifikationsentwicklung; Schwierigkeitsgrad; Academic; Language; Languages; Akademiker; Sprache; Wissenschaftssprache; Türkisch; Collegestudent; Self-efficacy; Selbstwirksamkeit; Schulleistung; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Ausland; Türkei
Abstract	The number of international university students in Turkey is growing, thus more research is needed on teaching Turkish as an academic language and on academic literacy. This study aims to investigate (i) the international students' views of the difficulties of the academic language skills, (ii) the efficacy level of the skills for their academic success, (iii) the academic listening and academic literacy status of the students, and (iv) the relationship between academic listening levels with some variables. In order to analyse the self-efficacy perceptions of the students, the data were collected by using the Turkish adaptation (Cronbach's alpha value =0.943) of the Academic Listening Self-rating Questionnaire (ALSAQ), developed by Aryadoust and Goh (2017) and adopted by Ellialti and Batur (2021). The questionnaire consists of 39 items that embody six factors. These factors are lecture structure, cognitive processing skills, linguistic components and prosody, relating input to other materials, memory and concentration, and note-taking. In the study, the participants were 221 international students studying at various academic programs in 33 state universities in Turkey. The data were analysed by Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) program. The results of the study showed that (i) listening is an easy skill for students to develop, (ii) listening is important for the students' academic success, (iii) out of 39 items, 13 aspects were not at a good level in academic listening, and (iv) academic listening levels of the international students were not significantly different in terms of their gender, study area, and the number of the known languages. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01