A Study of Listening Comprehension Ability in English Language of Girls and Boys of Standard 9th

To communicate is the ultimate goal of any language. The components of communication are Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing (LSRW). According to psycholinguistics any language can be best learned through acquiring the listening, speaking, reading and writing skills consequently. Every child acquires his or her first language through listening and then only they can master the other skills. Our regional student seem to be very weak in English and in my opinion that could be attributed to the current unnatural order of learning the language which stresses only on the reading and writing skills avoiding the foremost listening and speaking skills. That is why most of our student are able to write answers in English but may not be good at listening. A. K. Paliwal(2011) says, “Listening is an important skill and must be learnt and taught carefully. Unlike hearing, listening is always purposeful.” Thus, my focus in this research is on assessing the listening comprehension ability of student so to discover the difficulties pertaining to listening comprehension. Moreover the first and the most important component of communication are listening because we receive plentiful information from surroundings by listening. In short, listening is considered as the key skill in communicating with others. The present research will examine and carry out student‟ ability of listening comprehension in English language.