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The purpose of this research, through multimedia supported listening texts to provide improve students listening skills. The research is based on quantitive method. The study group of the research was composed of two sixth grade classes in a secondary school affiliated to the Ministry of National Education (MoNE) in Istanbul. Research; according to the quasi-experimental design, a control group and an experimental group were arranged. Before the application, all sixth grade students in the school were applied Listening Comprehension Test (LCT) and Listening Attitudes Scale (LAS) and the obtained data were entered into SPSS and two groups which were statistically close to each other was selected as experimental group and the other was selected as control group. In the experimental group, the courses were taught using the multimedia supported listening texts developed by the researcher, while in the control group, the texts were taught with the existing texts without making any changes. Listening/comprehension questions related to the texts in the workbook were transferred to the worksheets and replied after the texts were listened. In addition, recall questions about the texts were asked to measure the students' short and long-term recall levels. At the end of the application, the answers of the students to these questions were analyzed statistically and it was examined whether there was a significant difference between the experimental group and the control group, and the experimental group showed a significant difference. LCT and LAS were applied again, as posttest and a significant difference was concluded in favor of the experimental group. These significant differences in favor of the experimental group were discussed with the results of similar studies in the relevant literature.
