The teaching of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) is very interesting but at the same time is considered difficult particularly for those students who have read most of the subjects of their courses in their mother tongue The four skills viz, Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing are necessary for learning a foreign language and an imbalance in any skill can hamper the whole process All the skills are important but during present pandemic situation listening skill is considered as a problematic skill particularly in a foreign language context where practice opportunities are limited because of the world pandemic COVID- 19 that hampered all our teaching and learning process This study aimed to explore the problems and challenges faced by EFL students because of the limited resources An online survey method was followed to collect data from a group of Saudi EFL students (n = 100) using the Listening Comprehension Processing Problems Questionnaire The results indicated that these students experienced moderate to high levels of difficulty in all the skills particularly in 'Listening' because of limited resources The findings are expected to have useful implications for teachers who intend to address these problems of EFL learners Analysis of the findings revealed that most of the students encountered problems in listening most of the times during online classes sometimes because of physical and sometimes other barriers Discussion and implications of these findings are presented © AesthetixMS 2020

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COVID-19 大流行期间沙特阿拉伯 EFL 学生面临的问题和挑战

英语作为外语 (EFL) 的教学非常有趣，但同时也被认为是困难的，特别是对于那些以母语阅读了大部分课程科目的学生而言 四种技能，即听力、口语、阅读和写作是学习外语所必需的，任何技能的不平衡都会阻碍整个过程 所有技能都很重要，但在当前大流行情况下，听力技能被认为是有问题的技能，尤其是在练习机会有限的外语环境中由于全球大流行 COVID-19 阻碍了我们所有的教学和学习过程 本研究旨在探讨 EFL 学生因资源有限而面临的问题和挑战 采用在线调查方法从一组沙特 EFL 学生那里收集数据(n = 100) 使用听力理解处理问题问卷 结果表明，这些学生在所有技能方面都遇到了中到高难度，尤其是“听力”由于资源有限 该研究结果有望对打算解决 EFL 学习者这些问题的教师产生有益的影响 对研究结果的分析表明，大多数学生在在线课堂上大部分时间都遇到了听力问题，有时是身体原因，有时是其他障碍 介绍了这些发现的讨论和影响 © AesthetixMS 2020