Abstract:
This study aimed to explore out-of-class English language listening activities and to study the process of out-of-class English language listening activities of lower secondary students. The samples of this study were 140 ninth-grade students from 2 schools. Both of the selected schools were under the office of secondary education area 42. The sample size was calculated by the formula of Raosoft (2004). The research instruments were the questionnaires and the interview. Research instruments for data collection consisted of 1) Descriptive Statistics: frequencies, mean and standard deviation; and 2) Inferential Statistics: Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) by using Bonferroni and Dennetts T3; and 3) Content Analysis for qualitative data. The results of study were as follows: 1. Students usage of the top three out-of-class English language listening activities, including listening to English songs, watching English movies, and watching English TV program, were mostly used in aspects of the frequencies ranging from 3.40, 2.26 and 2.02 while the durations ranging from 2.91, 2.42, and 1.76 of the usage. 2. Students of the high proficiency, intermediate proficiency and low proficiency groups usage of out-of-class English language listening activities in aspects of frequencies were significantly different at the significance level. 05 3. The students mostly used their mobile phone devices to do the listening activities outside the classrooms and the students of the high-proficiency and low-proficiency groups were different in their usage of the listening activities. In addition, listening activities, performing any behavior after the listening (e.g. speaking, reading, or writing), or finding solutions to the listening problem were influenced by several factors such as 1) the objectives of the listening activity (e.g., personal interest, amusement, language development, or working skills), 2) background knowledge, 3) societies (friends, parents, and others). 4) ability to filter authentic media sources, and 5) the correlation between listening ability and out-of-class English language listening activities (two-way listening).