مجلة العلوم الاجتماعية
Volume 16, Numéro 1, Pages 972-985
2022-03-31

Metacognitive Strategy-based Listening Instruction

Authors : Mekhoukh Sohila .

Abstract

Listening provokes anxiety among English as a foreign language undergraduates who are usually left struggling with the pressure of some challenging hidden linguistic and non-linguistic processes. Despite its importance and its complicated nature, listening has received very little attention in the English language pedagogy in Algeria. Most textbook materials are based on testing comprehension only; no real teaching is emphasized, and teachers tend to focus on the final product rather than the process that led students to arrive at getting the answer correct. This paper provides an overview of the listening skill, its significance, and difficulties facing non-native speakers of English with listening comprehension. A review is also presented on how the teaching of listening is approached now and then, and the effectiveness of the metacognitive listening strategy-based instruction approach.

Keywords

listening skills ; EFL Listening comprehension ; metacognitive strategy-based listening instruction ; metacognition ; process-based approach