to Enhance EFL Iraqi University Students Listening Skills Using Listening Activities and Authentic Materials

The following research aim mainly at illuminating the skill of listening through examining the impact of pre-listening Exercises on Iraqi EFL learners’ listening understanding to English language genuine materials. To achieve the study objective, a question and hypothesis were created as follows:" Do pre-listening exercises develop EFL learners' understanding skills of native English? .Fifty EFL learners from university of technology had been arbitrarily chosen and divided into two groups. The first one was taught genuine listening materials (Pilot group) and the second one was taught basic listening topics (control group). An aptitude exam (involving subsidiary tests: listening understanding, listening conception) is utilized like a pre-test for gauging the students’ possible contrasts as the investigation started. The sample groups were undertaken a post-test following the teaching classes. By examining the quantitative information and correlating the mean marks of both groups, it becomes clear that the sample students of the pilot group that had been subjected to genuine pre-listening Exercises preformed better than those of the control group in the post-test. In addition, the examination of outcomes showed the affirmative influence to pre-listening exercises on genuine English material understanding.
Finally, in light of the study findings, the answer for the study question is positive and the hypothesis is supported, so it can be said that the English as foreign language can be developed by the pre-listening