Students' Listening Comprehension Problems in EMI Classes

Abstract

This study aims to identify listening comprehension problems experienced by EFL students in English Medium Instruction (EMI) classes at Universitas Islam Indonesia. Referring to (Anderson, 1995; Goh, 2000; Vandergrift, 2003) cognitive framework, this study focuses on three main aspects: perception, decoding, and utilization. Data were obtained from 84 students through questionnaires and analyzed descriptively using SPSS. The results showed that the greatest difficulty was in the perception aspect (M: 2.86, SD: .975), especially in understanding native speakers' accents and speaking speed. Parsing difficulties (M: 2.76, SD: .983) are related to vocabulary comprehension, while in the utilization aspect (M: 2.69, SD: .909), students experience problems in capturing the structure and main idea of the discourse. These findings show the importance of listening teaching strategies that are tailored to the needs of students in the EMI context.