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    “Difficulties in EFL Students to Develop English Listening Skills”
    (Ecuador : Pujilí : Universidad Técnica de Cotopaxi (UTC), 2025-02) García Jaen, María Fernanda; Andrade Morán, José Ignacio
    Listening is one of the four skills of the English language. It is considered a receptive skill based on understanding and interpreting what they hear, which represents a challenge for students of English as a foreign language. These difficulties were presented to the students in three phases: perception, parsing, and utilization, and it did not allow them to have a good understanding of what is transmitted during audio, creating a deficiency in listening comprehension. The main objective of this study was to identify listening comprehension difficulties in students of English as a foreign language. The data collection was employed, in 33 third-cycle students of the national and foreign language pedagogy career at the Technical University of Cotopaxi. A mixed method was used through the Listening Comprehension Problems Questionnaire, which was replicated as a means of data collection. This questionnaire was used in previous studies by Zur, Nowrouzi, Tam, Zareian, and Nimehchisalem. The study’s effectiveness was measured by collecting data and obtaining results to know the difficulties of students when developing listening skills. The questionnaire consists of 23 questions that were adapted to reality, where 15 questions were selected and divided into three cognitive stages which are perception, parsing, and utilization, in each stage the questionnaire was composed of 5 questions. The data obtained were tabulated using percentage tables and frequency graphics. Through the questionnaire, the difficulties of listening comprehension in English as a foreign language will be analysed. It is expected that the findings obtained will be useful for students who want to increase their performance in listening comprehension. Also, it will be useful for researchers who wish to address the study of listening comprehension difficulties in students of a foreign language.