Difficulties Faced by Malay Students at Tarbeya Islamia Secondary School in Pasir Puteh in Mastering the Arabic Listening Skill.

The main purpose of this study is to see the mastery of Arabic listening skills among religious secondary students. This study was conducted on sixty respondents who were third-grade students at Tarbiyyah Islamiyyah Arabic Religious Secondary School, Lepah. This study is descriptive and quantitative. The instrument used to obtain the data is a questionnaire that contains information on the respondent’s background and the difficulty factors of students in mastering Arabic listening skills. The research data obtained were analyzed using Statistical Packages for Social Science (SPSS) software. The findings show that the overall mastery of the respondents in Arabic listening skills is at a moderate level of knowledge and the level of achievement of female respondents is higher than that of male respondents. Among the implications of this study is that listening skills need to be established in a formal learning system. In addition, students need to try to practice various methods and strategies that can help empower and improve their Arabic listening skills.