Learners' Cognitive Aspects & Prospectives of Listening Comprehension’

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Damanhour University

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The main purpose of the current  paper  was to investigate, in details, the cognitive processes involved in learning listening comprehension to determine to what extent, they account for language learning at university level,  to identify ESL learners' real-time problems faced during listening. Examples and evidence are derived from a sample of second year students at the Faculty of Education, Damanhour University, Department of English language. Zhang & Zhang (2011) scale is used to evaluate students' listening dialogues and texts of listening comprehension. Language acquisition is, thus, seen as having certain cognitive prerequisites or co-requisites. Results of discussions showed that learners will not develop linguistic forms before acquiring the cognitive bases for those forms as there is a big gap between their needs and their real abilities. The current paper is organized as follows: firstly, some theoretical issues related to the cognitive aspects involved in listening comprehension, to the listening teaching / learning and to the evaluation of listening comprehension will be presented. Secondly, research results achieved will be described. Thirdly, some thoughts were developed, orientated by the objectives described

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