Explicit Strategy Training and English Language Proficiency
Explicit Strategy Training and English Language Proficiency

Summary/Abstract: Factors affecting second language learning and teaching have been an area of interest for many researchers for the past few decades. Among those, the ones who carried out researches in strategy training are not less than the others. In this experimental study, the researcher investigated whether the explicit listening strategy training had any impact on the listening proficiency of the second language learners. The population of the study was 36students (6 male, 30 female), all from the English Language Teaching department of a university in İzmir. In the research, a standardized test was given to the subjects to measure their listening comprehension proficiency.KR20 coefficient of the test was found to be .89. To measure their listening strategy awareness, a listening strategy inventory, which was designed by the researcher, was used. Alpha coefficient of the scale was found to be .88. In the analyses of the data, arithmetic mean, standard deviation, standard error, percentage, skewness and kurtosis distribution, and t-Test techniques were used, and the significance level of the tests was .05. As a result of the research, although there were considerable differences between listening strategy use and listening proficiency levels of the experimental and control groups in favor of the experimental group, they were not realized at statistically significant levels.

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