RELATIONSHIP… 79 Ethiop.j.soc.lang.stud. Vol. 4 No. 1 June 2017 ORIGIONAL ARTICLE The Relationship between Secondary Schools Teachers’ Knowledge and Extent of Teaching Listening Comprehension in Katsina State, Nigeria Iliyas, Rasaq Ayodeji 1 and Abdulmalik, Sabitu 2 Recommended citation: Iliyas, Rasaq Ayodeji and Abdulmalik, Sabitu (2017). The relationship between secondary schools teachers’ knowledge and extent of teaching listening comprehension in Katsina State, Nigeria. Ethiop.j.soc.lang.stud.,4(1).79-100. .eISSN:2408-9532; pISSN:2412-5180. ISBN 978-99944-70-78-5. Web Address: http://www.ju.edu.et/cssljournal/. Abstract Listening as a language skill is the kernel of language learning which has been receiving very little attention in the purposeful task of teaching English as a Second Language in Nigeria: a practice noticeably inhibiting attainment of competence in English language. The study examined secondary school teachers’ knowledge of listening comprehension and the extent of teaching the skill in Katsina State, Nigeria. Sample for the study consisted of fifty-nine (59) teachers of English language randomly selected from 59 senior secondary schools out of 160 in the State. The study used Teachers of English Listening Knowledge Test (TELKT) and Teachers’ Extent of Teaching Listening Comprehension Questionnaire (TETLCQ) duly validated by experts and through a pilot test with reliability co-efficient of 0.8; the instruments were found reliable to collate data for the survey study. Mean Percentage and Frequency count, Pearson Product Correlation, ANOVA and T-test were used to analyse data collected. The study found that secondary school teachers are merely averagely knowledgeable about listening; nevertheless, they poorly teach it to students in schools, and no relationship exists between knowledge and extent of its teaching. The study thus recommends for an urgent in-service training for the teachers on listening skills teaching, recruitment of adequate qualified teachers of English language and a critical monitoring of listening instructional contents taught in schools by school heads and the quality assurance unit of the ministry of education. Keywords: Extent/ ESL/Listening/ Knowledge/Relationship/ Teaching/ 1 PhD; Department of Educational Foundations; Federal University Dutsin-Ma, Katsina State Nigeria; Email: railiyas705@gmail.com ; Telephone: +2348033774398. 2 Department of Science Education; Federal University Dutsin-Ma, Katsina State, Nigeria Email: a.sabitu@yahoo.com