Evaluating Listening Skills Performance of Children in Kindergarten by Using Narrative Text

Abstract

The aim of this study is to identify the basic listening skills needed for

the children of Kindergarten and their level in listening skills.The sample

consists of 35 children.The researcher used the listening skills test prepared

by Alswafy (2001) and the listening skills for Kindergarten prepared by the

researcher.The data were analyzed using SPSS- 17 statistical package for

social sciences and the “Likert scale” test (T) .

The first question, Auditory Discrimination includes selecting words

that start with the audio, discrimination between formulas individuals

and plural, the distinction between wording of masculine and feminine,

discrimination coloring, understand the meaning of words audio from

context of the text, and distinction between Arab voices converged in director.

The second question is about the skills of classification such as following

sequence in presentation of text of story is divided into parts, correlation

between words, images, audio, installation of a word from a group

of letter sounds, the details and in accordance with relay in story.

The third question is about the skills to draw main idea such as the selection of an

appropriate title for a story, understand ideas and details heard by preschool.

The fourth question is measuring the deductive thinking skills to identify

experiences of child learned to speak and to complete the text of the story

audio. Finally, the fifth includes content and skill assessment to judge the

sincerity and the reasons for preference of the story heard and to comment on

the text and express an opinion.

Using Likert levels of performance shows that children who received

(63.4%) .The skill of classification comes second by (50 %) , while the skill to

draw the basic idea received (55.8%) .Thinking deductive is (60.0%) , while

the skill of judging the truthfulness reached (63.2%) .

The level of performance of children is weak in the top listening skills

with the exception of the main skill of auditory discrimination.