Of uzbekistan ferghana state university foreign language faculty

5.1.Kinds of listening materials used in English lessons in the case study school.
The second research question pertained to the kinds of listening materials used in the case study school. As stated in Chapter 1, the term listening materials comprises, for example feature audios, songs and you tube clips. The researcher hence expected the English teachers from the school to use different kind of listening materials in the classroom. In fact, the researchers’ main hypothesis was that the teacher would use mostly short listening materials, taking into account that English lessons took place only twice a week and lasted forty five minutes. As it became explicit from the interviewes , however the teacher used a range of listening materials including both short ones, such as a five minute long listening materials and long ones such a two hour long feature listening materials, documentaries, short you tube clips and music materials. However the impression gained was that the four teachers’ favourite and most frequently used kind of audios, was a feature listening materials and for several reasons.
Firstly the teachers mostly referred to feature listening materials in their interviewes. For example when asked to comment on the influence of listening materials on reading skills , Nodir remembered how the listening materials made her pupils more interested to read the text about the historical period that she published on its learning afterwards. Similarly, other teachers constantly referred to particular listening materials rather than any other kinds of audios when answering questions.
Secondly the two teachers whose lessons had been observed all used listening materials.
Thirdly the school audio library consisted of approximately 60 listening materials and most of them were audios. Since the school audios had been bought by the teachers . this fact confirmes that the teachers seemed to prefer audios to other kinds listening materials such as episodes from situation audios or documentaries. However in their interviewes the teachers mentioned other kinds of listening materials used in their teaching such as songs.