Most interviewed teachers held negative attitudes towards teaching listening comprehension¶

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q2 i? Four of the seven interviewed teachers expressed negative attitudes towards teaching listening comprehension, citing obstacles such as lack of motivation, class size and lack of authentic materials. → Alrawashdeh 2017

Evidence¶

Alrawashdeh 2017¶

Alrawashdeh, A. I. & Al-zayed, N. N. (2017). Difficulties That English Teachers Encounter while Teaching Listening Comprehension and Their Attitudes towards Them. English Language Teaching, 10(5). https://doi.org/10.5539/elt.v10n5p167

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Informal interviews with seven teachers from five public schools and one private school, covering kindergarten through 12th grade. Four teachers reported negative attitudes, attributing them to motivation, student level, class size and lack of authentic materials.

"The analysis of the interviews results shows that four teachers have negative attitudes towards teaching listening comprehension, because there are several obstacles such as the lack of teacher’s motivation, the academic level of the students, the number of students in class, the lack of authentic materials"

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