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APPENDIX-A
Questionnaire
Dear student: The purpose of this questionnaire is to gather information about the
listening difficulties learners face while they are engaged in listening to English. Your
responses are of considerable importance for the success of the study, so you are kindly
requested to provide genuine responses to the questions. Thank you very much in
advance for your cooperation!
Part-I
Direction: The following are list of statements that will help you to identify the
difficulties you faced while you were engaged in listening to different texts on the
listening course (FLEE 105), which you took in the first semester of this year (2007).
Read each statement and provide your responses based on the listening difficulties you
experienced in the course according to the following scale.
Item No.
Circle 5 if you always face the problem
Circle 4 if you often face the problem
Circle 3 if you sometimes face the problem
Circle 2 if you seldom face the problem
Circle 1 if you never face the problem
Statements
1 Unfamiliar words including jargon and idioms interfered with my
listening comprehension.
2 Complex grammatical structures interfered with my listening
comprehension.
3 Long spoken text made me tired and interfered with my listening
comprehension.
4 Information that was not crucial to me and that could not generate
sufficient interest to me did not make me to continue listening.
5 The length and complexity of sentences interfered with my listening
comprehension.
6 Unfamiliar topic/subject matter interfered with my listening
comprehension.
7 At the time of listening I found it difficult to predict what would
come next.
8 I found it difficult to recognize the words I know because of the way
they are pronounced.
Never
Level of difficulty
Seldom
Sometimes
Often
Always
1 2 3 4 5
1 2 3 4 5
1 2 3 4 5
1 2 3 4 5
1 2 3 4 5
1 2 3 4 5
1 2 3 4 5
1 2 3 4 5