EXPLORING ENGLISH LISTENING COMPREHENSION PROBLEMS AMONG UNIVERSITY LEVEL STUDENTS.

Abstract

This study investigates causes of English listening comprehension problems. It found the difficulties that the students faced when listening to an English text. This study explored the problems and obstacles faced by university level students while listening to English. This was quantitative based research; a questionnaire was adopted and distributed to 50 participants. The questionnaire was later analyzed with ethical considerations. Listening comprehension is a cycle where people focus on chosen parts of aural info, structure importance of a passage, and associate what they heard with existing contextual information. It includes many processes in the understanding and making sense of spoken English. Listening includes understanding of the meaning of particular words, recognizing the speech sounds and understanding the syntax structure of sentences. The university level students faced the issues in English listening. Some of the factors that were included were contextual, mental and physical. These factors contributed to the problem of English comprehension. Students faced the problem of not being able to comprehend some word due to lack of background knowledge.