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Enhancing Efficiency And Effectiveness In Listening-Comprehension Activities: Some Down-To-Earth Insights, Kazem Al-Rifai

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

This study in its overall thrust is devoted to deal with listening comprehension as a very important topic for teachers and learners of English as a foreign language. It highlights the importance of listening skills in both academic and practical aspects for EFL students. It addresses the extent of students' lack of proficiency and inability in demonstrating the skill(s) of listening properly especially when they are exposed to real communicative situations with fluent speakers of English, including their teachers who entertain different degrees of fluency. Unlike grammar in having a strict application of rules, listening is referred to as an …