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Very few studies have been done on English as a Foreign Language (EFL) Saudi students in listening classes. Therefore, this pilot study was aimed at exploring the causes of listening comprehension anxiety from EFL Saudi learners’perspectives at Majmaah University, Saudi Arabia. The pilot study involved two students who were selected based on the following criteria: 1) Only Saudi male undergraduate students who enrolled in Preparatory Year Program (PYP) at Majmaah University would be involved in this study, 2) The students who had studied or lived in native English speaking countries would be excluded. The researcher used pseudonyms to refer to the participants as Mohammad and Ismail. This study employed a qualitative case study research design. The data were collected through Semi-structured interviews with the participants. The interview sessions were audiotaped and transcribed. The results show that the participants experienceda high level of anxiety when doing the listening comprehension tasks. Three main causes of listening comprehension anxiety emerged from this study: 1) the problematic nature of listening comprehension, 2) the classroom atmosphere, and 3) the low English proficiency of the students. |\n\nINTRODUCTION  \nMost English as a foreign language (EFL) learners face serious problems when listening to English language tasks because they have to understand and comprehend what the speaker says (Vogely, 1999) . In addition, listening skill requires hypothesizing, prediction, generalizing, revising and checking for the listening inputs (Vandergrift, 1997) . A major problem related to listening comprehension is anxiety. Several researchers (Kim, 2000; Kimura, 2008; Vogely, 1998) agree that anxiety hinders the process of language learning especially among EFL learners. Language anxiety is defined as “the feeling of tension and apprehension, specifically associated with second language contexts, including speaking, listening, and learning”(Maclntyre and Gardner, 1994, p.24) . This paper is on the pilot study of a Doctoral thesis that the researcher conducted in order to explore the listening comprehension anxiety among EFL Saudi learners.  \nSome researchers (Kimura, 2008; Ko, 2010; Lili, 2016) argue that in order to understand the phenomenon of foreign language anxiety, language skills should be studied separately. Research done on specific language skill anxiety are writing (Cheng, 2004), speaking (Abdullah and Rahman, 2010), listening (Elkhafaifi, 2005) and reading (Al-Shboul,  \nAhmad, Nordin and Rahman, 2013) . Although research on language anxiety have found that speaking skill provokes the most anxiety, listening comprehension anxiety has also been considered as a problematic area for EFL learners (Young, 1992) . In listening, the learners face difficulties in comprehending the speech. They receive the information just once and in restricted procedures then they are supposed to answer directly the ques","cbCaibzGMzWjYeZA","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibzGMzWjYeZA","pdf",787228,"English","# Article info\n## Article history\n## Abstract\n# Introduction\n## Listening comprehension challenges and anxiety\n## Definitions of listening comprehension anxiety\n## Importance of anxiety in EFL listening","[{\"question\":\"What is the purpose of this pilot study?\",\"answer\":\"The pilot study aims to explore the causes of listening comprehension anxiety from EFL Saudi learners’ perspectives at Majmaah University, Saudi Arabia.\"},{\"question\":\"How were participants selected for the study?\",\"answer\":\"Two Saudi male undergraduate students were selected based on enrolling in the Preparatory Year Program (PYP) and excluding those who had studied or lived in native English speaking countries.\"},{\"question\":\"What main causes of listening comprehension anxiety were found?\",\"answer\":\"Three causes emerged: the problematic nature of listening comprehension, the classroom atmosphere, and the learners’ low English proficiency.\"}]","Exploring the Causes of Listening Comprehension Anxiety from EFL Saudi Learners’ Perspectives: A Pilot Study | PDF",1792067990,15]