General Behaviours of Students with Poor Listening Skills or Who Do Not Listen To the Lectures According To the Teachers’ Opinions

There are four linguistic skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing). Among these, the most important and the most used one is listening. Listening is the primary way for education and learning as well as communication. Listening is a crucial skill in the academic success and education of the student. The teacher should be able to care about students that do not listen as well as those who do. The way to accomplish this lies in detecting which students have poor listening skills and whether they listen to the lecture or not. The purpose of this study is to reveal the general behaviours of students with poor listening skills or who do not listen to the lectures and to develop opinions and approaches to resolve the identified negative behaviours. For this purpose, the opinions of 53 different teachers and academicians from different levels of academic and branches from the city of Konya in Turkey during the 2013-2014 academic year. The data put forth by the participants was analyzed with content analysis technic and were classified into three categories. These are body language movements, verbal behaviours and material usage. The participants stated that the general behaviours of students with poor listening skills or who do not listen to the lectures can be understood 45% by body language movements, 34% by verbal behaviours and 21% by material usage. The effects of the gender factor were not observed in the study.