An Assessment Of The Practice Of Teaching Listening Skills With Reference To Kotebe College Of Teacher Education Language Students In Focus

Thc objecti,'c of this mid, 'as tel assess the practice "I' teaching listening skilb at KotcbcrnCollege of Teacher Education. Spceilicall y. the study 'as intended lC1 an s""': r thc' follo'ingrnquestions:rnWhat are the factors (positi"e or ncgati, 'c) related to:rnI. the materials the in structo rs use andrn2. the teaching en"ironment that affect the teaching of listening skills at the college"rnIn order to achieve the objectiYes of the study. questionnaires. interview. classroom observationsrnand content analysis ch~ck list were used as data collection tools. Both open ended and closedrnended questionnaires ere dispatched to the avai lable Engl ish language instrucl(lrs and thernsample students. Semi structured interview questions were held with the available Engl ishrnlanguage instructors and the sample students. Observations "ere he ld based on the structuredrnchecklist. Qocument inspection was also done by using checklist. Then based on the informationrngathered fro111 the instructors. the students. the classroom observation and the content analysis.rnthe study showed that:rnThere were no teacher made or commercial videocassette listening material s. Likewise. the stud,·rnrevealed that there were few audiocassettes possessed by only two instructors. The studyrnidentified the factors th ~; hindered the teachi ng of listening skill s. According to the findings. thernmajority (89%) of the instructors did not use or attempt to use audio ane! video recordingrnmaterials to teach listening partly because they could not operate the equipment available in thernlanguage laboratory and partly because the laboratory could not accommodate all the studen!"rnassigned in one section. Lack of ~ppropriate electricity connection in the classrooms as als

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