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The aim of this study was to identify the most frequent problems Iraqi university students encounter in learning English as a foreign language. It also aimed to explore and find out the instructors’ suggestions and opinions in overcoming the reported problems. This study was designed as a mixed method study. That is, both quantitative and qualitative research methods were used to find out the answers to the research questions. The perception questionnaire that was used with the students gathered quantitative data while the follow-up interviews conducted with the teachers gathered qualitative data. A perception questionnaire was used with the students and 10 interview questions that were prepared based on the questionnaire results were used with the instructors. The study was conducted at Lebanese French University (LFU) in Erbil/ Iraq in the academic year of 2018-2019. The participators of this research were 50 university students from second and third stage of English language and literature department and 7 of their instructors at English language and literature department. The findings of the current study revealed that the students studying English as foreign language are struggling with the problems regarding the length of a spoken text, understanding the intended meaning of the speaker. In addition, the difficult grammatical structures used in spoken texts, note taking during listening, natural speeches with hesitations and pauses, speakers speaking too fast, varied accents, lack of internal motivation and feelings of worry and nervousness, uninteresting topics, listening to every detail to get the main idea and deficiency in using topic markers were respectively the most common problems that the students experience in listening comprehension. The instructors’ suggestions to reduce the students’ reported problems were about the significance of raising the students’ awareness about the vitality of acquiring listening skill in a language and for the teachers the proper use of the pre-listening activities and conducting conferences with the students to learn about the difficulties that they experience so as to plan and use appropriate listening materials and tasks.

i̇stanbul aydın university international journal of media, culture and literature/istanbul aydın university international journal of media, culture and literature

Iraqi University Students’ Listening Comprehension Problems In Learning English As A Foreign Language İngilizceyi Yabancı Dil Olarak Öğrenen Iraklı Üniversite Öğrencilerinin Dinlediğini Anlama Konusunda Karşılaştıkları Problemler