Listening comprehension: First year English-major students’ perceptions and problems

Thai Cong Dan and Nguyen Ngoc Quyen *

* Corresponding authorNguyen Ngoc Quyen

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Published: 30 Mar 2018
DOI: 10.22144/ctu.jen.2018.010
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Thai, C. D., & Nguyen, N. Q. (2018). Listening comprehension: First year English-major students’ perceptions and problems. CTU Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development , (08), 75-83. https://doi.org/10.22144/ctu.jen.2018.010
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This article reports on a study which attempts to investigate the first year English- major students’ perception of the role of listening skill development and find out the problems that they have to face while learning listening comprehension. The descriptive study was conducted with 115 of the freshmen who are studying at some universities in the Mekong Delta. The data were collected from questionnaires, interviews, and observations. The results of the study indicated that most of students held positive awareness toward the role of listening skill development and the listening comprehension problems including accent, pronunciation, speed of speech, insufficient vocabulary, different accent of speakers, lack of concentration, anxiety, and bad quality of recording were the major listening comprehension problems encountered by the first year English- major students.
Keywords: Listening, listening comprehension, listening skill development, listening problem, perception

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