Language Teaching Research Quarterly

This study aims to generate an analysis of how to encourage extensive listening in an English Preparatory Program with listening worksheets in an enjoyable way, to identify the learners’ responses, and to establish the feedback from students which could provide more productive activities. For many of the students listening in target language is a challenging task. Extensive listening aims to get the learners listen and enjoy it. To improve the listening fluency, extensive listening is one of the functional and practical ways thanks to easy and interesting materials. Extensive listening encourages the learners to get fluent in a qualified way. The main value in extensive listening is to allow the students’ self-selection and the decision of how to spend time effectively to improve their listening skill in the target language. 6 Turkish learners of English were the participants of this study; and they completed worksheets after each listening activity for 5 weeks in the spring term of 2018-2019 academic year in the prep school of a state school. The results of the analyses showed that all of the participants showed positive tendency towards listening and they developed their level of listening skill, along with some other skills in the target language.