A study on Second year English major students’ dificulties in listening comprehension skills at HPU

Abstract

This study was conducted with thirty of Second year English major students at Hai Phong private University with the aim of investigating their English listening problems and listening proficiency. Questionnaire, and Interview were used in this study as tools to collect data. As a result, the data will be analyzed by using SPSS. The result of the study revealed that students that the main reason that caused listening problem for the students is the listening text. However, the factors that mostly caused listening problems were lack of practicing listening skill and lack of exposure to different kinds of listening materials. The finding of this study would be great information for teachers to recognize students’ listening problems. Regarding to the research studies, the findings of this study would be useful to probe the listening problems in a deeper level. On the contrary, this study would be helpful for the material developer to design effective listening materials for university students.