Training Metacognitive Strategies to Improve Listening Comprehension in EFL Teaching

摘要

The study of learning strategies has proven that learners who are strategically smart are assumed to become successful in language learning. Strategy training in the listening classroom has been proved by many studies an essential and effective way of improving listening proficiency. More important, it leads to an enhancement of learner autonomy. In this article, an argument that the applications of listening metacognitive strategies will help students to achieve great success in listening comprehension in language pedagogy will be presented. The lesson model in the classroom might feature a short period of pre-listening, which focuses on planning and creating motivation. This would be followed by a relatively longer period of while-listening, which focuses on monitoring for information. Finally, there would be an extended post-listening period, which focuses on checking, revising and strategy evaluation.