Özet:

Awareness of listening skills is a factor that increases the efficiency of listening. Examination of students’ awareness of listening skills is important for the development of listening skills in students. When the literature is examined, it is seen that there are limited studies on listening skills in students. However, it is important for students to be aware of their listening skills, because listening is an important language skill and affects other language skills.The purpose of this study is to examine the 6th grade students’ awareness of listening skills in terms of some variables. The study is a quantitative descriptive survey study. The study was carried out on 576 randomly selected students from secondary schools in Nilüfer, Osmangazi and Yıldırım districts of Bursa province which were determined according to easily accessible situation sampling method in purposeful sampling in 2017-2018 Academic Year. “Listening Skills Awareness Questionnaire” and “Personal Information Form” were used to collect the data of the study. SPSS 21.0 package program was used in the analysis of the obtained data. T-test, ANOVA and Welch tests have been used to reveal the differences between frequency, percentage and arithmetic mean analysis in data’s descriptive statistical methods and independent variables. As a result of the research, the listening skills’ awareness of the participants significantly differentiates according to the variables of gender, the availability of his own room, the frequency of reading books, the availability of his own bookshelf, the frequency of mother’s and father’s reading books, magazines and newspaper and status of enjoying listening the problems of friends and relatives. The other result of the study is that the “frequency of listening to music” variable is not a statistically significant difference in listening skill awareness.

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