The common obstacles within listening comprehension: challenges and recommendations

Abstract

The article deals with the common obstacles of listening comprehension that students experience in English language classes and also suggests the ways of solving them. However, the students have restricted listening comprehension and troubles to learn listening. The students’ concentration to gain English proficiency is becoming lower and the teacher has faced problem in classroom organization. The article’s target is to identify impart of listening comprehension strategies through authentic texts, and to give a classification of the listening comprehension obstacles. In this paper, authentic texts are the main tool used to extend students’ listening comprehension strategies in English language classes.