The Effect of Topic Familiarity and Linguistic Difficulty on EFL Listen-ing Comprehension

摘要

As a highly integrative and demanding receptive skill, listening comprehension presents a challenge to both learners and researchers. The study reported in this paper is listening comprehension objective-factor research. Manipulating topic factors, the study investigated the effect of topic familiarity and linguistic difficulty on EFL (English as a foreign language) listening comprehen?sion of learners at different proficiency levels.