A Questionnaire of Beliefs on English Language Listening Comprehension Problems: Development and Validation

This article discusses the development and validation of a questionnaire designed to assess EFL learners' beliefs about the English language listening comprehension problems they may encounter in unidirectional listening, as in the case of listening to a recorded text. An exploratory factor analysis of the responses of a sample of Iranian EFL learners (N = 580) resulted in a forty-item questionnaire with six distinct factors: process, input, listener, task, affect and context. The data also revealed evidence of reliability of the instrument. The reliability and validity of the instrument are presented and the potential uses of the questionnaire are discussed.