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Publication Date: 2016-Feb
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Learning to Listen: The Impact of a Metacognitive Approach to Listening Instruction
Wang, Weili
Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, v25 n1 p79-88 Feb 2016
This article reports on a small-scale intervention study that examined the impact of a metacognitive approach to listening instruction, in the form of a metacognitive pedagogical cycle, on Chinese university English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' listening proficiency and aspects of metacognitive knowledge over 10 weeks. During each week, participants in the experimental group were guided through the processes of prediction, problem identification, monitoring, selective attention, evaluation and reflection. Quantitative data from tests showed that the metacognitive pedagogical cycle might positively affect learners' listening proficiency. Qualitative data from reflective journal entries showed that it could contribute to learners' growth in three aspects of metacognitive knowledge, including person, task and strategy knowledge. These findings are important in understanding how the metacognitive pedagogical cycle works to cultivate self-regulated listeners. This study provides practitioners with an alternative to develop learners' listening that focuses on the process of learning to listen, especially in test-oriented EFL educational settings.
Descriptors: Metacognition, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Statistical Analysis, Language Proficiency, Experimental Groups, College Students, Listening Comprehension, Learning Strategies, Learning Processes, Language Tests, Journal Writing, Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: China
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