A COMPARATIVE STUDY AMONG ELT AND ELL STUDENTS’ RECEPTIVE SKILLS AT UNIVERSITY LEVEL

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.