The Impact of Audio Stories (Listening Skills) on Pronunciation of EFL Learners

The present study attempted to investigate the effectiveness of the audio-stories (listening) on fostering studentsʹ pronunciation. A group of 40 students were randomly selected from Novin institute in Gorgan city, Golestan province, Iran (20students were in the experimental group and 20 students were in the control group). Experimental and control groups in year 2012-2013 was conducted to test the effectiveness of utilizing audio-stories as strategy to improve the pronunciation. The students of the experimental group received training through the listening to the audio-stories for eight sessions; while the students in the control group didnʹt receive training. Pronunciation test was the effectiveness of the program in developing the experimental group studentsʹ pronunciation proficiency by listening to stories. T-test was used to determine the mean in the pre-test and post-test pronunciation performance of element three level students. The obtained results showed that there is significant difference between the means of the experimental group and the control group. Besides, an improvement was observed in the overall pronunciation proficiency. It has been concluded that the program designed according to audio-stories (listening) seems to be effective in improving studentsʹ overall pronunciation proficiency.