Investigating Efl Students’ Listening Comprehension Difficulties

Résumé: Listening comprehension has a significant effect on developing student’s language proficiency to sustain effective communication. Despite of its importance in language acquisition, EFL students all around the world face difficulties while listening to spoken English. Hence; this research paper aims to collect student’s perceptions toward listening problems, as well the main factors that hinder their comprehension .Its main goal is to raise Salah Al Dinne Al-Ayoubi secondary school students awareness about its importance in language acquisition and strategy use to overcome their constraints. This study adopts a descriptive analytical research method to achieve the goals set for this research. Moreover, the data was gathered by student’s questionnaire. The sample size was 52 third year students of different genders. The collected data were analyzed quantitatively. The research results indicate that the majority of students were facing problems while listening to English .Consequently .Accent, speech rate, luck of contextual knowledge, unfamiliar vocabulary, complex grammatical structures as well strategy use were the major difficulties encountered by EFL students. Hence; students as well teacher’s awareness about the difficulties, may enable them to develop teaching, learning strategies to improve listening skill. In fact, cognitive, metacognitive and socio-affective strategies are considered the best ways to overcome student’s constraints.

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