The Effect of Reciprocal Teaching Strategy on Improving Critical Listening Skills of Ninth Grade Students at Zarqa Directorate

Abstract

This study aimed at exploring the effect of Reciprocal Teaching strategy on improving Critical Listening skills of ninth grade students. To achieve the aim of the study the researcher designed a test consisted of (25) multiple choice items to measure critical listening skills. The sample of the study consisted of (121) from 9^th grade students distributed on (4) sections: (2) representing the experimental group and the  other (2) representing the control in the school year 2013/2014. The sample was selected using purposeful sampling from  Zarqa. Results of the study indicated significant differences at (α=0.05) due to the instruction strategy used, in favor of those taught using Reciprocal Teaching and significant differences due to gender, in favor of females. No significant differences were found due to the interaction between Strategy and gender