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that the major reason was due to the limitation of vocabulary. Figure 2 shows the results of Q1b (When you can understand a sentence but not in dialogues). 62 % of them answered it is because of the spend, and 26 % answered that because of liaison.Figures 3 to 6 show the answers to Question 2 (What do you think is the best response?). In Figure 2　Question 1: What is the major reason why you fail to hear?Q1b: When you can understand a sentence but not in dialoguesFigure 3　Question 2: What do you think is the best response?Q2a: To a best friendFigure 4　Question 2: What do you think is the best response?Q2b: To a family memberQuestion 2, there are four questions from Q2a to Q2d, which are divided into two categories, talking to familiar people (Q2a and Q2b) and unfamiliar people (Q2c and Q2d). Figure 3 shows the results of the best response when talking to a best friend. About half of the participants chose “What’s ‘ennui’?” And 22 % of them chose repeating, “Did you say ‘ennui’?” As shown in Figure 4, 62 % of the respondents chose “Say that again?” when talking to a family member. When they talk to an older person, such as a teacher, the most popular response (79%) was “Sorry, could you please say that again?” (see Figure 5). Figure 6 shows the case of talking to an unknown person, such as a salesclerk. The students’ responses varied. 45 % of them chose “Please repeat that.” And 20 % chose “What does ‘dob …’ mean?”We also asked the same question items to the four instructors whose native tongue was English. For Question 2a, talking to a best friend, all the teachers chose “What’s ‘ennui’?” as their response, and for Question 2b, talking to a family member, three of them selected “Say that again?”, whereas one chose “What does ‘soy-blabla’ mean?” as their answers. For Question 2c, talking to an older person, two teachers chose “What does ‘Alu sequence’ mean?”, one selected “In an Alu sequence, 571