A COMPARATIVE STUDY AMONG ELT AND ELL STUDENTS’ RECEPTIVE SKILLS AT UNIVERSITY LEVEL
Abstract
This research paper throws the light on comparing students’ receptive skills in two different departments. The researcher finds out he fourth-year students' receptive skills in English Language learning (ELL) and general education/ English language teaching (ELT) departments, both of study English as a second language. For testing the hypothesis, a group of 40 of fourth-year students was gathered. 20 students were chosen from ELL department and 20 from ELT department at Lebanese French University. All of the study's objectives were covered through tests in which four different types of questions—vocabulary, true/false, synonyms, and paragraph writing—were used to evaluate the reading test. Fill-in-the-blank questions and brief summaries of the audio were the two types of questions on the listening test. The listening and reading tests were both at the pre-intermediate level. The findings of the research show that ELL students have better reading and listening skills compared to ELT students. Besides, the students from both departments are more proficient in reading than in listening
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