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ABSTRACT

Received 26 May 2017
Revised 11 Sep 2017

Accepted 30 Mar 2018

This article is to report on a study which attempts to investigate the first year English- major students’ perception of the role of listening skill development and find out the problems that they frequently encounter while learning listening comprehension. The participants are 115 of the first year English-major students who are studying at some universities in the Mekong Delta. The data were collected from questionnaires, interviews, and observations. The results indicated that most of students held positive awareness toward the role of listening skill development and the listening comprehension problems including accent, pronunciation, speed of speech, insufficient vocabulary, different accent of speakers, lack of concentration, anxiety, and bad quality of recording were the major ones encountered by the first year English- major students.

Keywords

Listening, listening comprehension, listening skill development, listening problem, perception

Cited as: Quyen, N.N. and Dan, T.C., 2018. Listening comprehension: First year English-major students’ perceptions and problems. Can Tho University Journal of Science. 54(2): 75-83.