The limitation of vocab power

new words are such matters that prevent students from

understanding the text. When encountering a new word, just
10.5% choose to ignore the word and keep on listening, 42.4% try
to guess its meaning and 47.4 % feel depressed and can not listen
anymore. From this, we can see that lacking of vocabulary could be
a barrier to students. 
. Listeners may face an unfamiliar word which can stop them
and think about the meaning of that word for a while and miss
the next part of the speech. The listener find hard to hear the
sounds , understand the meaning at the same time.
This often happens when you hear a word you half remember and find,
you have completely lost the thread of what was being said by the time
you remember what it means, but can also happen with words you are
trying to work out that sound similar to something in your language,
words you are trying to work out from the context or words you have
heard many times before and are trying to guess the meaning of once
and for all.

Length, speed of listening

The long listening text is supposed to be an obstacle to students
in listening
the level of students can have a significant role when they listen to long
parts and keep all information in their mind. It is very difficult for lower
level students to listen more than three minutes long and complete the
listening tasks. Short listening passages make easy listening
comprehension for learners and reduce their tiredness
 If the speakers speak too fast students may have serious problems to
understand words. In this situation, listeners are not able to control the
speed of speakers and this can create critical problems with listening
comprehension
Actually, if the students do the listening for a long time, they will be
under pressure. This will not bring out good result. Furthermore, if
the listening text is too long, the listener is required the skill of
note-taking. However, the note-taking is not easy for students.
Most students find it hard to take note while listening for they are
not trained with this skill. The skill of note-taking seems to be the
most useful way when students have to face a long task in
listening.
The length of time students listen may cause memory problems or
even fatigue and this would distract listeners’ attention from
grasping the meaning of the text, and learners may miss the rest of
the text when there is a lapse in concentration. This may be
attributed to the short memory span for the target language
No recognizing the main point
If students can not obtain any main points, failure will be an
inevitable result. the students can not recognize the main points in
a listening because they concentrate too much on listening word by
word. Thus they can not identify the key words or the content
words of the listening tasks.
Listening word by word or listening for detail, as most people think,
is very important to get the main ideas. Once they try to
comprehend every single word, there is little chance for them to
discover the key words