Understanding EFL international students academic listening strategies: a literature review
. Academic listening and interaction in international educational settings are essential for academic success. International students’ language proficiency and prior practice in their home countries either facilitate or impede their academic success. Thus, internationalization has become a desir...
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Tresorix Ltd
2022
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Online Access: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/102530/ https://doi.org/10.26803/ijlter.21.11.9 |
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Summary: | . Academic listening and interaction in international educational
settings are essential for academic success. International students’
language proficiency and prior practice in their home countries either
facilitate or impede their academic success. Thus, internationalization has
become a desirable trend among learners to further their studies in
overseas institutions where English is the medium of instruction.
Overseas education allows international students to gain new knowledge
and improve their academic skills in various academic fields. However, a
lack of English communicative competence and comprehension impedes
learners’ academic and communicative success. As a result, international
students look for strategies to help them overcome their academic
comprehension challenges. This paper explores and better explains EFL
international students’ academic listening challenges and strategies to
motivate stakeholders to support international students in furthering
their studies overseas. Thus, this paper reviews related literature on
academic listening strategies through the traditional literature review process. Therefore, this paper explores and better explains EFL
international students’ academic listening challenges and strategies to
motivate stakeholders to support international students in furthering
their studies overseas. The discussion of findings reveals that
international students face challenges with understanding others in
academic discourse. These challenges are due to their lack of prior English
listening practice in their home countries. Thus, international students
rely on strategies to overcome communication challenges and improve
academic listening comprehension skills (i.e., memory, cognitive, and
social strategies). The findings should encourage administrators of
international institutions, researchers, and other stakeholders to revamp
pre-sessional English language programs and conduct more research on
international students’ language learning experiences to help them
succeed in their overseas study programs. |
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