critical thinking of journal "Listening Comprehension for Tenth Grade Students in Tabaria High School for Girls".

1.      Related  literature (theoretical background)

The researcher conducted a research about listening comprehension for tenth grade students in Tabaria  high school for girls. The researcher told that the role of listening  as tool for understanding and emphasized it as a key factor in facilitating language learning. I absolutely agree with this statement, because in my opinion listening will be a tool for understanding when someone talks to others. It is supported by a statement of Howatt and Dakim (1974),” listening is the ability to identify and understand what others are saying”. In this research, the researcher use terms of language processing that learners need access to both top-down as well as bottom-up processing strategies. It appropriate with the statement of Nunan in 1991, that Bottom-up processing strategies focus on the individual components of spoken and written messages, i.e. phonemes, graphemes, individual words and grammatical elements which need to be comprehended in order to understand messages. Top-down processing strategies, on the other hand, focus on macro-features of text such as the writer's or speaker's purpose, topic of the message, the overall structure of the text. When we use the term of bottom-up listening, it can help the listener use grammatical cues to organize the inputs into constituents, for example, in order to recognize that in the book which I lent you (the book) and (which I lent you) are major constituents rather than (the book which I) and (lent you). As well as the top-down listening strategies, on the other hand, involve the listener in assigning an interaction to part of a particular event, such as storytelling, joking, praying, complaining, assigning persons, places, and things to categories, inferring cause and effect relationships, anticipating outcomes, inferring the topic of a discourse, inferring the sequence between events, and inferring missing details. Listening  decode a message that the speaker is delivering, the listener must actively contribute knowledge from both linguistic and non-linguistic sources. In other words, listening is a two-way process involving reception, decoding of input, and production that involves predicting and compensating.

2.       Objective of the study

The objective of this study is to identify the reasons that make some female students in high school master the English language skills while other female students do not master it. Why this paper is focused for female, because I think the researcher want to know the main obstacles facing female students in deriving listening skills. So in this paper the researcher will answer  the following questions: What are the reasons behind attracting some female students to learn English while others do not show the same affection? What are the methods used in learning listening skills? And what are the difficulties facing those female students in learning listening skills?

3.      Methodology

The researcher distributed the questionnaire among Tenth grade students in Tabaria High School for Girls in the city of Irbid, Jordan. I think why the researcher focused his research in that school because the problems in listening have their origins in high school where few students have been the recipients of listening teaching. in my opinion, why the researcher used a questionnaire in this paper, because he want to find out the kind of methods used in teaching English skills and the kind of difficulties students face.