FACTORS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO THE PROBLEMS EFL ...

ate of delivery (which the learners perceived as fast speech) interfered
with the learners listening comprehension.
2.4 Poor recordings and lack of sufficient time to carrying out tasks affected the
learners’ listening comprehension.
3. The result of the observation of the listening environment also indicates that
part of the blames for the students EFL listening difficulties lays on the
inconvenience caused by the lab and its surrounding. The language laboratory
could not accommodate the large number of students. The pieces of equipment
in the lab are not only few in number but more importantly they are very old and
defective. Furthermore, the noise from the nearby construction sites has also
been reported as a major source of problem, especially for those students who
had to listen without headphone.
4. With regard to the analysis of the listening materials used in the listening course
(FLEE 105), the following results were obtained.
4.1 The result of the analysis of the textbook (Listening to TOEFL: Test Kit 2)
show that the target listening material itself was a source of listening
comprehension problems. In particular, the difficulty of the tasks,
unfamiliar topics, lack of activities that let the students practice various
strategies, and demanding a wide range of linguistic abilities influenced
the students EFL listening performance in the listening course.
4.2 The results of the analyses of the module also indicate that it was
inadequate in many aspects. Lack of pre-listening tasks, the presence of
jargon, the syntactic complexity, and the densely packed information in the
listening passages were part of the problems that affected the learners
listening comprehension.
5. The analysis of the students listening achievement scores as well as the
instructor’s and the students’ responses indicate that most students’ listening
performance was low. The students’ low scores could lead to the conclusion
that the students have poor listening ability. This was partly responsible for the
learners’ poor listening comprehension.
6. As shown in Table-8, thirty six factors which influence the learners’ listening
comprehension are identified. From the students’ point of view, the factors
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