FACTORS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO THE PROBLEMS EFL ...

organized into four categories according to their common characteristics: speaker,
listener, listening materials and listening environment. They are summarized and
presented in Table-5.
Table- 5: Other factors that affected the learners listening performance
Category Factors
Speaker 1 Involvement of many speakers and overlap of speech
Listening 2 The difficulty of the concepts in the listening texts
Materials 3 Unfamiliar tasks in the exam
4 The complexity of the tasks
Listener 5 Inadequate class time (2 hours per week)
6 Lack of interest and motivation in the course
7 Unfamiliarity to the listening course itself
8 Lack of extra time to practice listening skills outside class
Listening
Environment
9 Lack of confidence in their listening abilities
10 Disturbing noise
11 Insufficient number of headphones and playing machines
12 Lack of support & encouragement
13 Inconvenient class time
14 Lack of opportunity to get extra practice in the lab
15 Lack of sufficient time to grasp the message
16 malfunctioning of the headphones
17 interruption of message at the time of listening
18 sudden/unscheduled tests of listening
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