The present study examines factors affecting online listening performance among EFL military cadets to practice listening comprehension skills. 32 (male) EFL Jordanian students from Mu'tah University were divided into two groups: experimental and control groups in their 2nd year for the academic year 2023-2024. The researcher used three research instruments: a questionnaire, a semi-structured interview, and an online listening test. The results showed that practicing online listening is beneficial to the development of their listening skills. In addition, results revealed that a 2% development of motivation led to a 79.9% increase in online listening performance at a 0.001 significance level compared to 77.5% in the control group. Further, the results revealed that online listening practices were very effective in developing their understanding of effective online listening comprehension (speaker accent, speaker speed of speaking, new vocabulary, and English knowledge of the listeners). This shows that online listening practices should take place in an EFL learning setting.