The effect of task characteristics on listening comprehension

This study focused on the effect of two factors of complexity and salience and the mixture of both on listening comprehension. Advanced learners were divided into four separate groups (complex-salience-mixture-control) and each group was tested by different listening tests. Each group received a pre-test, 10 sessions of during-test instructions and a final post-test. The results showed that the mixture group which had two factors of complexity and salience in their tests showed a significant change in their performance from pre to posttest. The difference between the scores of post-test for the complex and salience groups was somehow significant compared with the pre-test scores, but these scores of the two mentioned groups were not as much significant as were the scores of the Mix group.