scholarly journals A Study on Metacognitive Strategy Use in Listening Comprehension by Vocational College Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 127
Author(s):  
Zhaowen Cao ◽  
Yuewu Lin
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Listening Comprehension ◽  
Metacognitive Strategies ◽  
Strategy Use ◽  
Metacognitive Strategy ◽  
Vocational College ◽  
Monitoring Strategies ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Comprehension Ability ◽  
Listening Strategies

Metacognitive strategies concerning general skills, through which learners manage, direct, regulate and guide their learning. For several decades, researchers have recognized the importance of Metacognitive strategy use for successful English listening comprehension. Most of the previous studies of metacognitive strategies use in China have been carried out among undergraduates, but few focus on that of vocational college students. Therefore, it is necessary to carry out investigation into metacognitive strategies use in English listening comprehension among vocational college students so as to give vocational college English teachers pedagogical implications on how to train their students and facilitate their teaching. The aim of the present study is to make a tentative investigation into the metacognitive strategies use in the listening comprehension among vocational college students. The subjects in the present study consist of one hundred and thirty nine vocational college students in the Jiangxi Blue Sky College. And three instruments were involved in the present study. They are questionnaire, listening comprehension test and interviews. The present research has yielded the following findings: 1. Based upon the results, the frequency of students’ metacognitive strategy use frequency is relatively low, and there is a rather large discrepancy among students ' use of metacognitive strategies in listening. 2. The analysis shows that females employ metacognitive strategies more often than males’ students. There is significant difference in the use of planning strategies, monitoring strategies, self-evaluation strategies and self-regulation strategies, and the most significant difference is shown in monitoring strategies.3. From the results, it is found that the higher score the students get, the more frequently they use the strategies. Especially to the monitoring strategies, there is significant difference between the high score and low score students.4. With regard to the relationship between the employment of metacognitive listening strategies and listening comprehension ability, analysis shows that there is a positive relationship between metacognitive strategies and listening comprehension ability. The more frequently they apply the metacognitive listening strategies, the stronger their listening comprehension ability will be.

scholarly journals The Effect of Dictogloss on Listening Comprehension: Focus on Metacognitive Strategies and Gender

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (7) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Mina Taheri ◽  
Saeed Taki
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Listening Comprehension ◽  
Standard Test ◽  
Metacognitive Strategies ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Listening Strategies ◽  
Experimental Group

This study aimed at investigating the effect of dictogloss on EFL learners’ listening comprehension as well as on their use of metacognitive listening strategies with a focus on the effects on male and female learners. To this end, a total number of 50 female and male Iranian EFL learners, aged between 12 and 15 years old, at the intermediate proficiency level in a private language school in Iran were selected and randomly assigned to experimental and control groups with 25 male and female learners in each group. Dictogloss was employed to teach the learners in the experimental group for an instruction period of 12 sessions. Participants’ listening comprehension was determined through a pre/posttest which was adapted from the listening section of the standard test of PET and their use of metacognitive listening strategies via the MALQ, a questionnaire developed by Vandergrift et al. (2006). The data obtained were submitted to the t-test and results revealed significant improvement in the experimental group’s listening comprehension with no significant difference between male and female learners. Finally, the results showed that the listeners in the experimental group made noticeable gains in their choice of metacognitive strategies through using the dictogloss technique.  Findings are discussed in light of recent theories of language learning and teaching.  

scholarly journals THE USE OF LEARNERS’ DIARIES: DOES IT WORK TO ENGAGE STUDENTS’ METACOGNITION IN LEARNING IF CLAUSES?

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 26-35
Author(s):  
Fidaniar Tiarsiwi
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Test Score ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Metacognitive Strategies ◽  
Strategy Use ◽  
Structural Knowledge ◽  
Novice Learners ◽  
Executive Skills ◽  
Medium Level

Metacognitive strategies are expected as ‘higher order executive skills’ which enable college students to approach learning systematically and effectively by using the elements of planning, monitoring and evaluating. This study is conducted to investigate whether or not metacognitive strategies can affect the development of structural knowledge of students. To reflect how the students use these strategies, learning diary can lead the learners to strategy use. Twenty-one participants of third semester students were involved. Nine of them were selected to be probed intensively for their metacognitive habits in learning If Clauses. Then, they were divided into three groups according to the level of students’ progress and their mid test score. The first group was assumed as novice learners, the second group was categorized as medium level students and the last group was presumed as expert learners. This study revealed that expert learners were better diarist in documenting what they did when learning. The medium level students also indicated that their capability in realizing the use of their cognition was up and down. They were good at evaluating their shortcoming and monitoring some progress, but they were poor at planning and modifying strategies. Meanwhile, the novice learners less reflected how they learned on their documentation. It could be illustrated that they did not have any motivation to plan their learning, evaluate and monitor their learning.

scholarly journals Research on the Use of Listening Strategies by Chinese Non-English Major College Students-A Comparison between Skillful and Unskillful Listeners

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Xiu-hua Ma
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Listening Comprehension ◽  
Autonomous Learning ◽  
Strategy Training ◽  
The Internet ◽  
College English ◽  
New Learning ◽  
English Major ◽  
Listening Strategies

Based on the researches of listening strategies at home and abroad, this study tries to explore the use of listening strategy by Chinese non-English major college students under the internet autonomous learning environment. The results from the questionnaires and interviews of listening strategies used by different level students have some implications for teachers. Listening strategies play an important role in the process of listening comprehension and skillful listeners tend to use all the listening strategies more frequently than the unskillful ones in their listening activities. So it is necessary for college English teachers to conduct strategy training in students’ listening comprehension especially in this new learning environment.

USING NOTE TAKING STRATEGY TO ENHANCE STUDENTS’ LISTENING COMPREHENSION ABILITY

Lingua ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (01) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Adi Novrian Jamil ◽  
Deddy Suezdy
Keyword(s):  
Listening Comprehension ◽  
English Education ◽  
Note Taking ◽  
Design Data ◽  
Comprehension Strategy ◽  
The Third ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Experiment Method ◽  
Comprehension Ability ◽  
Data Collection Procedure

This article points out the results of the research investigating the effect of note takingstrategy on the third semester students’ listening comprehension of English Education StudyProgram, Faculty of Teaching and Educational Sciences, Universitas Islam As-Syafi’iyahJakarta. The research samples were taken using purposive sampling, with the total numberof samples is 30 students.The research methodology was pre-experiment method, with onegrouppretest posttest design. Data collection procedure was completed by the students byobtaining scoresin the listening section of PET test,30 items.The findings indicated that therewas significant difference of score between the students who received note taking strategyand students who did not receive note taking strategy. It can be seen from the data analysisusing ANOVA that showed significance value of 0.000 was smaller than (<) Alpha 0.05 andFobserved (15.873) is higher than the critical value of Ftable(2.35). It means that note takingstrategy has significant effect on students’ listening comprehension ability.The Implicationof result research can benefit both lecturer and students in listening comprehension strategy.

scholarly journals Effect of Power Point Enhanced Teaching (Visual Input) on Iranian Intermediate EFL Learners’ Listening Comprehension Ability

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Samira Sehati ◽  
Morteza Khodabandehlou
Keyword(s):  
Null Hypothesis ◽  
Listening Comprehension ◽  
Visual Input ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Intermediate Students ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Comprehension Ability ◽  
Power Point ◽  
Experimental Group

The present investigation was an attempt to study on the effect of power point enhanced teaching (visual input) on Iranian Intermediate EFL learners’ listening comprehension ability. To that end, a null hypothesis was formulated as power point enhanced teaching (visual input) has no effect on Iranian Intermediate EFL learners' listening comprehension ability. The participants of the study were 100 students at Kish language institute. After administrating an OPT test, 40 intermediate students were randomly selected and divided into control and experimental groups. Both groups participated in pretest of listening comprehension. The purpose of such a test was to measure the initial subject knowledge of participants in listening comprehension ability in both groups. Then the control group received no treatment while the experimental group received treatment based on power point enhanced teaching (visual input). The whole project took for 8 sessions. Finally both groups sat for the post test of listening comprehension ability. In the analysis phase of the study, the data collected from the control and experimental group was analyzed through SPSS software. ANCOVA was run to compare the results to find out whether there was any significant difference among the scores of two groups or not. It was found that students in experimental group performed significantly better than control group. So the null hypothesis as power-point enhanced teaching (visual input) does not have effect on Iranian Intermediate EFL learners’ listening comprehension ability was rejected. The result showed that power point enhanced teaching (visual input) had impact on subjects' listening comprehension ability. The findings of the present study are of value to all those involved in developing and designing listening materials for EFL learners, besides teachers, testers, and curriculum planners.

A Case Study of Formation of Mandarin-English College Students’ Metacognition

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (12) ◽  
pp. 22802291
Author(s):  
Wei Zhou
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Strategy Use ◽  
Metacognitive Strategy ◽  
English Major

The present study provides both quantitative and qualitative analysis of the formation of language learners’ metacognition as the Mandarin-English college students in China. I hypothesized that language learning will be promoted by intervention of course teaching if students are trained to become more aware of and skillful at the use of metacognition strategies and other learning strategies that can be used in the language learning process. 3 of 115 freshmen from department of foreign language in Southwest Petroleum University are chosen to be subjects of the study. The result carries out to examine the intervention of strategy course on the formation of metacognition of English major freshmen in their language learning. The conclusions obtained from pre-interviews and post-interview have indicated that the subjects’ metacognition knowledge and metacognitive strategy use in language learning are conflicting. After the course, the metacognition of the subjects increased.

scholarly journals The Relationship between Emotional Intelligence and Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy of Chinese Vocational College Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (12) ◽  
pp. 4511 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ya Wen ◽  
Huaruo Chen ◽  
Liman Pang ◽  
Xueying Gu
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Female College Students ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Vocational College ◽  
Female College ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Relationship

The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between emotional intelligence and entrepreneurial self-efficacy. The sample consisted of 529 students. The tools used to measure the relationship between emotional intelligence and entrepreneurial self-efficacy were the Emotional Intelligence Scale developed by Wong and Law and the Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy Scale developed by Zhan. The results showed that there was a significant difference between male and female college students in entrepreneurial self-efficacy, but no significant difference between male and female college students in emotional intelligence. In entrepreneurial self-efficacy as well as emotional intelligence, there were significant differences between the third grade and the first and second grade, respectively. In addition, the results showed a significant positive correlation between entrepreneurial self-efficacy and emotional intelligence. With the improvement of the emotional intelligence level of vocational college students, the entrepreneurial self-efficacy will increase. The lower the emotional intelligence, the faster the improvement in entrepreneurial self-efficacy. The higher the emotional intelligence, the more stable the entrepreneurial self-efficacy. The university stage is considered an ideal entrepreneurial period, especially for vocational colleges’ students, who pay more attention to entrepreneurship and innovation education. Encouraging the cultivation of the emotional intelligence of vocational college students in life will help to improve personal entrepreneurial self-efficacy. This research emphasizes that improving the emotional intelligence of vocational college students can enhance their sense of self-efficacy in entrepreneurship and help students with entrepreneurship and career development.

scholarly journals What Students Feel in School Influences the Strategies They Use for Learning: Academic Emotions and Cognitive/Meta-Cognitive Strategies

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronnel B. King ◽  
Shaljan Areepattamannil
Keyword(s):  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Cognitive Strategies ◽  
Metacognitive Strategies ◽  
Strategy Use ◽  
Metacognitive Strategy ◽  
School Students ◽  
Academic Emotions ◽  
Cognitive Elaboration ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Cognitive And Metacognitive Strategies

The aim of this study was to investigate how academic emotions were related to cognitive and metacognitive strategy use. Secondary school students (N = 1,147) participated in this study and answered relevant questionnaires on academic emotions (enjoyment, hope, pride, anger, anxiety, shame, hopelessness, and boredom) and the use of various cognitive (elaboration, organisation, and rehearsal) and metacognitive strategies (planning, monitoring, regulating). Results of the analyses indicated that students who experienced positive emotions were more likely to use different types of cognitive and metacognitive strategies. Negative academic emotions were found to be non-significant predictors of strategy use. Implications are discussed.

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