AU - Avci, Rauf AU - Doghonadze, Natela AB - The article is dedicated to the issue of teaching EFL listening in Kurdistan region of Iraq. The important role of listening skills in a FL learning is presented, and the difficulties of listening are analyzed, including language (vocabulary, grammar) and psychological (low motivation and self-confidence as well as a high level of listening anxiety) factors. The article involves a questionnaire survey with participation of 98 students from 8 universities in Kurdistan Region of Iraq and 28 teachers from 7 universities in the same region (universities mostly overlap, so totally 9 universities are involved). The survey shows that the level of listening anxiety among the students is quite high. (As Provided) http://search.shamaa.org/abstract_en.gif OP - pp. 1995-2004 PB - Alhambra Horizon Research Publishing 2017 PP - Alhambra Horizon Research Publishing 2017 SN - 23323205 T1 - The challenges of teaching EFL listening in Iraqi (Kurdistan Region) Universities [Article] UL - https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1159748.pdf Full text (PDF) 1 http://search.shamaa.org/fulltext.gif YR - Alhambra Horizon Research Publishing 2017