Adversities and Challenges on Listening and Speaking Learning of the English Language Students

Abstract

The study aims to investigate the adversities and challenges on students' listening and speaking learning. Thirty college students were involved in this study by distributing a questionnaire consisting of ten questions relating to their adversity and challenges in listening and speaking learning. Findings from this study indicate that the students confront some adversities. Being afraid to make mistakes and lacking vocabulary when speaking and listening are the most suggested to be the adversities. Building selfconfidence is the best strategy to develop listening and speaking skills. INTRODUCTIONUniversities are paying more attention to writing, reading, and vocabulary rather than listening and speaking, whereas listening is one of the essential skills in English language learning. Hamouda (2013) said that listening skill is crucial in acquiring comprehensible input. Education does not occur if there is not any input. Furthermore, Ur (1996) considered that among four skills; listening, speaking, reading, and writing, speaking skill is the most significant one.The statements about the importance of listening and speaking convince us that EFL learners may have some adversities and challenges during the learning process, either it is from themselves, subjects, lecturers and other factors.Researchers conducted the study to find out which aspect that the college students encountered the most, and what college students should do or implement to overcome their adversities or difficulties in listening and speaking.The previous studies have also studied and examined the adversities and Journal of English Language StudiesJournal Homepage: http://jurnal.untirta.ac.id/index.php/JELS

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