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Learners’ problems 
Penny Ur mentions some of the most common problems that learners face
when dealing with listening tasks.These problems include the fact that learners find 
it difficult to catch the actual sound of the foreign language, or they think they have 
to understand every word; otherwise they feel lost and get stressed. Another problem 
is that they are not used to natural or “native” speech, so they need to hear a recording 

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several times in order to get an idea of the topic it is about. Besides, if the listening 
takes too long, they get tired. 
Solutions for learner’s problems 
Penny Ur proposes solutions for the most common problems that learners face
when dealing with listening tasks, such help them to focus on the general context 
rather than the particular sounds or exposing learners to English from very early 
stages of their learning process, so that they can get easily used to listen to native 
and natural speeches. 
She also proposes the use of „redundant‟ texts in which the important 
information more than once in a very subtle way so that learners can make sure of 
their understanding without the need of listening many times.In order to help 
students from getting tired, she proposes to break recordings up into short passages, 
then pause the tape and give students the chance to answer. 
1.3 Writing skill 
According to Hornby (2005),writing means “to make letters or numbers on a 
surface, especially using a pen or a pencil.” Richards & Renandya (2002) mention 
that writing is the most difficult skill for L2 learners, since they need to generate 
ideas,organize them and translate these ideas into readable text which can be very 
difficult for students. 
Harmer (2007) mentions some important aspects that are considered in 
writing such as Handwriting, even though communication takes place electronically 
nowadays. However, there are instances in which students write by hand, for 
example in language exams.  
Spelling is also a main issue in writing and in literacy. One of the reasons why 
spelling is difficult for students of English is that the correspondence between the 
sound of a word and the way it is spelt is not always obvious. A single sound may 
have many different spellings and the same spelling may have many different 
sounds.
The third aspect is Layout and Punctuation which are essential in writing. 
They are different in writing communities and, frequently, non-transferable from
one community or language to another. In fact, to success in writing, in teachers‟ 
own language or another language, it is necessary for students to be aware of layout 
and punctuation rules, in order to produce the written message as clearly as they can.