Listening and reading comprehension: The modality proficiencies in the comprehension of narratives of different types of learners

• Main Author: Elicaño, Maria Cristina Amor Chavez
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2007
• Subjects: Reading comprehension > Study and teaching > (Elementary); Listening comprehension > Study and teaching (Elementary); Listening comprehension; Reading comprehension; Language and Literacy Education
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_masteral/3597; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/etd_masteral/article/10435/viewcontent/CDTG004156_P__3_.pdf
• Institution: De La Salle University

This study compares the comprehension of narratives of three types of learners in the listening and reading modalities which target specific comprehension skills of getting the main idea, making inferences, sequencing events, and noting details. It further investigates the preferred modality of the Fast, Average, and Novice learners and the reasons behind their preference. Participants were 120 third grade students of St. Scholastica's College, Manila grouped according to their SAT comprehension scores and underwent two treatments. They either read silently or listened to a taped recording of four narratives after which they were tested on four comprehension skills. A comparison on the number of correct responses was made to determine the pupils level of comprehension. A questionnaire was also administered to determine the students mode of preference. An ANOVA was used to compare the mean scores of the three groups in a comprehension via reading and listening modes, and Pearson correlation r was used to determine the relationship between comprehension and the pupils preference. Results reveal that students comprehend better in reading narratives which test the skills of inferences and main idea, while students comprehended better texts which target the skills of sequencing events and noting details. Readers also performed better in noting details and least in sequencing events, while listeners performed equally well in noting details but did poorly in making inferences. Findings also show that Fast learners comprehend better via reading, while Average and Novice learners comprehend better when listening. Further, it was found out that reading is the more preferred mode for the learners for the narratives.