The Influence of Extensive Listening on Enhancing EFL Listening Comprehension

Abstract

The focal target behind conducting this research is to investigate the influence of extensive listening on developing EFL listening comprehension of third year students in the Department of English at Mohammed Seddik Ben Yahia University, Jijel. Accordingly, the research in hand hypothesises that if EFL students listen extensively to English, they will improve their listening comprehension in this foreign language better than who do not, that is to say, to investigate whether students’ listening abilities can be developed through extensive listening. This piece of research work is based on the use of only one research tool which is a questionnaire; this was due to the pandemic situation, corona virus. It was addressed to seventy (70) third year students of English out of two hundred and fifty nine (259). Based on the data that was gathered, analyzed and interpreted, the final results assure that practicing extensive listening outside the classroom has a positive influence on the development of listening comprehension. This study reveals that the more you listen to English, the better your listening comprehension will be. The results provide supporting evidence for the importance of extensive listening. It makes students more familiar with different accents, it helps them improve their word recognition and it helps them to be familiar with speedy speech. Moreover, the results indicate that different listening materials can be used extensively to develop students’ listening comprehension. Thus, the research hypothesis is confirmed, i.e., the more students are exposed to extensive listening, the more their listening comprehension will be improved. On the light of the obtained results, the limitations of this research work are indicated and some pedagogical recommendations and suggestions for further future studies are proposed ultimately