Raising Learners’ Metacognitive Awareness in Listening through Metacognitive-based Instruction: The Case of Third-Year License Students of English at Mohammed Lamine Debaghine University, Setif

This paper deals with the effect of a process approach based on a metacognitive listening strategy intervention conducted with 28 upper-intermediate undergraduate third year students at the English Department, Faculty of Arts and Letters, Setif 2 University. It is a mixed-method study, which used listening pre/post-tests, a reflection survey and emotional temperature charts as the main instruments for data collection.

Results show that the participants’ perceptions concerning the efficacy of the intervention in improving their listening performance are positive, and their scores in the listening post-test increased to some degree namely for poor listeners. The findings imply that the metacognitive listening strategy instruction can raise listeners’ awareness towards the processes involved in listening comprehension success, and that this type of teaching approach should be encouraged in future L2 listening classes.

Keywords: EFL listening comprehension; metacognition; metacognitive listening strategy instruction; process-based approach; strategy awareness.