FACTORS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO THE PROBLEMS EFL ...

These factors are important not only because they contribute to the immediate act
of comprehension, but because they help the students to build up the kind of
knowledge of context which is important for successful listening. As can be seen
from the above statements, students who get visual clues can easily comprehend
messages through the active listening they are engaged. Those students, whose
listening is based only on audiotape without getting visual support, may face
problems resulting from lack of paralinguistic elements. In most real life situations,
the speaker is actually visible to the listener and his facial expression and gestures
provide some aids to comprehension. However, in case of the listening materials of
BDU, the listening sources are recordings; thus, our learners are deprived of
getting visual clues in the listening activities.
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