EFL Students’ Listening Comprehension Difficulties: Case Study of Third-Year Students of English at Belhadj Bouchaib Ain Temouchent University

Abstract

The ability to listen and comprehend the spoken language of numerous utterances and oral texts is one of the most important things that students should do in order to master the English language. This research work aims at clarifying the importance of listening comprehension and discovering the students’ difficulties that prevent them from developing listening comprehension skills. Furthermore, this extended essay attempts to find and provide students with some useful methods that can help them in overcoming those hindrances. In this research work, the researcher used three main research instruments, which are questionnaire, interview, and classroom observation. The analysis of these research tools showed that most Third-year EFL students were having a difficulty in developing listening comprehension skills and each student had his preferable method to use in order to solve his listening problems and improve his performance in listening comprehension.