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A study of English listening proficiency and listening strategy use

  The purpose of this study is to reveal the learning strategies which Korean college students frequently use in English listening comprehension, and to identify the differences in the use of listening strategies between more proficient and less proficient students. Listening strategy use was investigated through the means of questionnaire, and a pre-test was administered to divide the students into a more proficient and a less proficient groups. The findings showed that the more proficient students used all of the categories of strategies more frequently than the less proficient students with the exception of social strategies. Metacognitive strategies distinguished proficiency groups and predicted the students’ listening proficiency. Translation and peeking were the characteristic strategies that were used more frequently in the less proficient group. The study offered English teachers and researchers the opportunity to understand EFL learners’ listening processes and where to direct listening strategy instruction. If teachers introduce the strategies which were found more commonly used by the more proficient students from this study to less proficient students, the strategy instruction could be effective for the development of the less proficient students’ listening abilities and strategies. Further studies need to be conducted more in depth considering the limitations of this study in terms of its means and procedures.