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Item TEACHERS’ PERCEPTION AND PRACTICE IN TEACHING LISTENING SKILLS: GRADE 11, ADIGRAT TOWN IN FOFUS(Mekelle University, 2025-06-25) MEKONNEN TESFALIDETThe main objective of this study was to investigate EFL teachers’ perception and practice in teaching listening skills for grade 11 students at Yalembirhan, Agazi, Funnotebirhan and Walaku comprehensive secondary schools, Adigrat town. Descriptive method was employed to investigate what perceptions, practices and challenges have happened in EFL classroom. The participants of the study were grade 11 EFL teachers (38) selected using purposive sampling techniques, and 296 of sample grade 11 students were selected using simple random sampling technique. Questionnaire, interview and classroom observation were used to collect the data. The findings of the research showed that most teachers didn’t focus on the relevant listening comprehension strategies such as arousing the students’ interest by asking questions before they listen, activating their previous knowledge and experiences to predict the text to be listen, visualizing the listening text by showing pictures towards the listening text, assisting them to recognize the relationship between or among sentences or paragraphs using connectors and supporting them to recognize and to identify the purpose of the listening text. The finding further showed that teachers denied teaching relevant skills; mainly, helping the students to recognize information stated indirectly, asking additional activities that consolidate the listening skill with other skills in order to integrate the four skills. Teachers failed to guide the students to make an outline, chart, table, map or diagram to organize the listening text, asking them to reflect their idea towards the writers’ point of view in order to differentiate the purpose of the listening text, relate the text with their experience or situation in order to use the language in communication. The findings of the study also indicated that even though EFL teachers’ have positive outlook towards the importance of teaching listening, their impression towards the skill as compared to the other language skills became less. And the teachers’ teaching perception of listening skills can be influenced either negatively or positively because of different reasons. And limited knowledge of vocabulary, lack of students’ interest to listen, lack of listening habit, less awareness on comprehension learning strategies, insufficient background knowledge and poor language processing have been the challenges of teaching listening. Based on the findings, it was recommended that EFL teachers should give more emphasis on listening skill. EFL teachers have to orient and organize the students to practice different tasks based on the listening phases. EFL teachers should develop their listening abilities so as to teach their students appropriately. The students ought to develop their listening practices and abilities through listening different audio-visual speeches throughout their life.