Enhancing Learner’ Listening Comprehension through Autonomous Learning:

Abstract

Autonomy is an important way that helps EFL learners improve their listening comprehension. But, students give a little attention to its importance. The main concern of the current research is to investigate the existence of a positive relationship between autonomous learning and listening comprehension. Thus, we hypothesize that: student’s autonomouy would increase their listening comprehension. The present study conducted through a quantitative descriptive-analytic method in which a questionnaire was administered to 152 second-Licence student at the department of English of 8 Mai 1945 University in order to find the different problems that learners face with listening and how autonomous learning can be an appropriate solution. The findings showed that learners face many problems during listening comprehension like accent, and unfamiliar vocabulary of the language. From these results it is concluded that there is a positive link between autonomous learning and listening comprehension when students are aware about the importance of autonomy in enhancing listening comprehension. As well as, teachers should provide students with techniques and give them the opportunity to learn independently in order to improve their listening comprehension.