The Ignored Skill in EFL Context “Listening”: A Review of Selected Article by Omar Gokhan Ulum

Abstract

This paper aimed at reviewing the article entitled “The ignored Skill in EFL Context” written by Omer Gokhan Ulum (OGU). It seems in OGU’s article the ignored skill is “listening” skill. He mentioned as a skill that most underestimated in the EFL context. This study sees OGU’s article aims to analyze the difficulties of listening comprehend faced by students of first-year university whos still in the elementary level. OGU’s research involving around 50 EFL students from three different classes. The data was accumulated by interview and a set of questions. The outcome of the study showed some complex problems in that the EFL students find it hard to understood the listening text when people speak with numerous and uncommon accents. In addition, the students are not having the skill to understood the meanings of words which are not pronounced accurately. Moreover, the students are not able to fastly memorize the words or sentences that they have just overheard. listening skill was an annoyance thing of the EFL students who are joined in the study. This paper sees what OGU's articles are trying to detect the EFL students’ listening comprehension issues. These results may help EFL teachers and boosting students listening comprehension skills. As a outcome, this present paper may say that OGU’s article can be replicable onto the same topic research, especially on the methodology section.

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