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    Analysis of Listening Comprehension Performance of Senior Secondary School Students in Kaduna, Nigeria
    (2020-09) Maryam Mohammed Kangiwa; Lawal, Safi; Ishola, Abdulkareem Farooq
    English as a language of instruction in Nigeria has been a barrier to effective listening skill. Communication is a way of disseminating information among people which may involve the use of a language or any other conventional means. The role of listening skills in communication cannot be underestimated at all levels of education. This study examines listening comprehension performance of senior secondary school students in Kaduna, Nigeria. It also analyses the level of listening comprehension performance of senior secondary school students in at the informative level based on gender. The study adopted a descriptive survey research type. The population for the study comprised all the senior secondary school students in Kaduna metropolis, while the target y"pulation consisted of all the senior secondary school two students in the sampled schools. Researchers designed a listening comprehension test to elicit information from the respondents. The reliability of the instrument was determined by using the test-retest procedure and a reliability index of 0.76 was recorded using Pearson's Product Moment Correlation statistics. The findings of the study revealed that maiority of the respondents had average performance in the general level of listening comprehension. Also, most of the respondents had low performance in informative level of listening comprehension, while there is no significant difforence in the male and female students performance at the informative level of listening comprehension, Based on the findings of this study, It was recommended that senior secondary school students should be sensitised on how 1o pay attention to what they hear and read to be able to listen with purposeful mind.