Investigating Listening comprehension problems and strategies.

Abstract

In last few decades, listening is one of the most pivotal skills has been given more attention due to the significant role that is plays in foreign language learning, but sometimes listening is finding difficult for many learners. The present work aims to shading light at the listening comprehension problems and strategies. It investigate the difficulties that prevent EFL learners from listening in the class. Therefore, it introduce some techniques and strategies to enhance and promote learner’s listening and develop their abilities and skills. It is attempt to explore the problems that hinder learners for listening like the quality of record material, the cultural differences, accent, unfamiliar vocabulary, length and speed, physical condition and lack of concentration. We choose to work on third year LMD students at Tiaret University in English department. Our work is devided into two parts, theoretical part and the practical part. In the practical one, the data collected from 70 learners using questionnaire and structured interview, and the data analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively. And the obtained result indicates that there are some problems that prevents learners from listening in the classroom. At the end some strategies and techniques were presented to enhance learner’s listening comprehension.