Listening Anxiety Scale For University Students: A Study Of Validity And Reliability

Year 2017, Volume: 4 Issue: 2, 199 - 203, 01.12.2017

Beytullah Karagöz Adem İşcan

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to develop a
listening anxiety scale to measure listening anxiety of teacher candidates. The
datum of the research was collected via listening anxiety scale with 47 items
prepared after an extensive literature review. In developing scale tool,
literature review, content validity (consulting an expert opinion), pre-testing,
measurement of validity and reliability steps are followed. The datum collected
were analyzed via SPSS program. According to the datum acquired from the data,
it was concluded that the scale could be applied.  In the very beginning of preparing phase of
the scale, by consulting expert opinion, some items among 47 which are
incomprehensible are corrected and 10 items which are found as not meaningful
are excluded and the number of the scale item reduced to 37.  The validity and reliability studies of the
scale were conducted with the 366 teacher candidates from Turkish, Science,
Math’s, Social Sciences, Computational Technologies and Classroom Teaching
programs in the Faculty of Education at Gaziosmanpaşa University. As a result
of the factor analysis, by eliminating some items, the scale having a high
reliability coefficient is collected in 27 items and 7 factors. These factors
are named basing on the body of literature. A scale consisted of 27 items and 7
factors with construct validity which will help researchers and educators
aiming to measure listening anxiety of university students was created.
According to the analysis of the datum collected from the study, it was
concluded that the scale which have been developed can be applied.

Keywords

turkish education, listening skill, listening anxiety, listening anxiety scale

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