A Study On The Effect Of Listening Strategy Training For Senior Vocational School Students

Much of EFL listening comprehension strategy research has focused on the identification of strategy used by successful listeners and the approaches of language learning strategy training. Little attention has been paid to the differences in listening comprehension strategy use between successful and unsuccessful students after the participants received listening comprehension strategy training.This study examined the output of the integrated EFL listening comprehension strategies training produced by a group of students. The major purpose was to investigate vocational school students' difficulties in listening strategy use and help them overcome barriers in listening comprehension. Participants for this study were students in a senior vocational school. They were divided into successful and unsuccessful listeners based on their scores obtained on the listening comprehension test. Cognitive and metacognitive strategies were selected for this training program according to students' requirements. The strategy-training program was administered in one semester. At the end of the training all the participants were given the same listening comprehension test and required to make verbal reports. An immediate retrospective verbalization was used for data collection in this study to investigate the results of listening strategies use. The research revealed that there were significant...