The Impact of Listening Strategy on Listening Comprehension

Abstract

Successful FL learners are characterized by knowing how to use language learning strategies effectively.This article reports a study of the effect of strategy training on listening comprehension.In the study, 56 intermediate foreign language learners at Shandong Economic College were either participants in a strategies-based instructional treatment or were comparison students receiving the regular listening course.Data were obtained and analyzed through the performance of a set of three listening tasks on a pre-post basis by both groups.The subsample of twelve students also provided verbal report data to show their cognitive insights into strategy use and the instruction itself.It was found that the increased use of listening strategy contributed positively to listening comprehension, which led to the implication that formal strategy training should have a role in the foreign language listening classroom.