Abstract:
This study was conducted to investigate EFL Teachers’ and Learners’ practices of
teaching and learning listening skills and challenges they encounter in grade ten EFL
classroom. This research was a descriptive study. Moreover, the current researcher
employed both the quantitative and qualitative methods. The subjects of the study were
132 randomly selected grade ten students and all grade ten English Teachers of Seka
Secondary in 2020/2021 academic year. Data was gathered by means of questionnaire,
interview and observation. Data obtained through questionnaires were organized and
analyzed quantitatively while data gathered through interview and observations were
analyzed qualitatively. The findings indicated that difficulty in understanding of the
spoken text was due to limitation of English proficiency, lack of opportunities to use and
to practice English listening skill, inability to understand native pronunciation and poor
teaching and learning habits. Moreover, it was found out that the speed of the speaker,
length of the text, less quality of recording materials were problems students and
teachers encountered in teaching and learning listening skills. Most of the students felt
that it was quite difficult to understand listening text since it contained unfamiliar words
in it. On the basis of the findings, ways of solving the problems such as applying active
teaching learning method during listening lesson in classroom, familiarizing students
with native speaker accent (pronunciation), using appropriate teaching and learning
listening techniques, giving opportunities to practice of teaching and learning listening
skills and the like were recommended
