Attitudes of English Language Teacher towards using Digital Stories to develop listening Skills among Female Primary Grade Students

Abstract

The current research aims to reveal the attitudes of English language teachers towards employing digital stories in developing listening skills among primary school students, using the descriptive survey approach. The study sample consisted of (40) English language teachers, and the study tool was the questionnaire that was applied to the study sample. The statistical analysis process was carried out using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) program.The results showed that the attitudes of English language teachers towards employing digital stories in developing listening skills among primary school students were high, as the general arithmetic mean of the study tool as a whole was (2.73) out of (3.00) with a standard deviation of (0.522), which is an average that falls in the third category of the three-tiered scale categories used in the study tool, This indicates that English language teachers' attitudes toward using digital stories to develop primary school students' listening skills were high. The study recommended offering training courses for teachers on how to design and use digital stories in the educational process to suit their needs.