In order to determine the relationship between diary and questionnaire on measuring listeningstrategies, 25 students were selected. All the subjects who were the researchers’ ownstudents, study English as a second language. They wrote diaries about their use of listening.Strategies within 8 weeks. They also took the listening strategy questionnaire at the end of theterm. The students’ questionn...

This study aimed to investigate the efficacy of metacognitive strategy instruction intervention on reducing language listening anxiety of Iranian EFL learners in the light of 2 listening metacognitive strategy instruction models of Integrated Experiential Learning Task (IELT) (Goh, 2010) and Metacognitive pedagogical Sequence (MPS) (Vandergrift, 2004). Participants were 63 B1 level learners who...

While listening plays an important role in the process of foreign/second language learning, different factors can affect this process. This study was designed to assess the relationship between listening anxiety and metacognitive strategy awareness with a special interest in the role of gender and proficiency level. In order to conduct this survey, two instruments including the Metacognitive Aw...

abstractthis study aims to highlight the key roles played by metacognitive strategies training in the development of listening comprehension skill and self-regulation strategies of efl learners. the participants of this study (n = 60) were female iranian students assigned to two groups of experimental and control in kish english language institute. learners in the experimental group received 6-...

This study examines the links between L2 linguistic knowledge, L2 listening strategy use, self-determined motivation, and L2 listening anxiety relative to L2 listening proficiency. Prior theoretical and empirical work suggests that these variables are interrelated in complex ways, and this hypothesis is tested here using structural equation modeling with a sample of 300 high school foreign lang...

the present research examines the academic listening comprehension strategies (lcs) among a total number of 59 intermediate and upper-intermediate persian learners who were taking pre-university courses in 2011 in persian language centre in imam khomeini international university, qazvin. the study examined nature of lcs, the variety of applying lcs, and finally predictability of strategies as a...

With the development of language teaching theories and researches, people gradually realize the importance of listening among the basic foreign language skills. Thus, how to improve the efficiency of foreign language listening teaching has long been a concern of researchers and foreign language teachers. As the beginning of English study, primary English is of significant importance for the lea...