A Study of Factors Affecting EFL Learners' English Listening Comprehension and the Strategies for Improvement

By Abbas Pourhosein Gilakjani, M. Ahmadi. 2011

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Language and Linguistics, Literature and Literary Theory

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In Developmental and Educational Psychology

1. S. M. Ahmadi
2. Narjes Banou Sabouri
3. A. Hamouda
4. Abbas Pourhosein Gilakjani

In Language and Linguistics

1. S. M. Ahmadi
2. Narjes Banou Sabouri
3. A. Hamouda
4. Abbas Pourhosein Gilakjani
5. Fakieh Alrabai

In Literature and Literary Theory

1. Narjes Banou Sabouri
2. A. Hamouda
3. S. M. Ahmadi
4. Abbas Pourhosein Gilakjani
5. Fakieh Alrabai

Citations in the corpus

• The Significance of Listening Comprehension in English Language Teaching (2016, methodology): “…be difficult to understand in a second language because they require combining of parsed segments in comprehension process and putt an extra burden on short-term memory which can already be burdened with un-encoded parts of the new input (Call, 1985 as cited in Pourhosein Gilakjani & Ahmadi, 2011).”
• An Investigation of Listening Comprehension Problems Encountered by Saudi Students in the EL Listening Classroom (2013, background): “Listening plays an important role in communication as it is said that, of the total time spent on communicating, listening takes up 40-50%; speaking, 25-30%; reading, 11-16%; and writing, about 9% (Gilakjani and Ahmadi, 2011).”
• The Importance of Listening Comprehension in Language Learning (2016, background): “Nunan (1998 as cited in Pourhossein Gilakjani & Ahmadi, 2011) said that listening includes an active process of decoding and making meaning from both verbal and non-verbal messages.”