A correlation study between EFL strategic listening and listening comprehension skills among secondary school students

Abstract EN

The present study was undertaken to investigate the correlation between EFL students’ strategic listening and their listening comprehension skills.

Eighty secondary school students participated in this study.

Participants' strategic listening was measured by a Strategic Listening Interview (SLI), a Strategic Listening Questionnaire (SLQ) and a Strategic Listening Checklist (SLC) with think-aloud protocol.

Their listening comprehension skills were measured by an EFL listening comprehension test.

A Pearson correlation analysis was run to test the correlation between strategic listening and listening comprehension test scores.

The findings revealed that the relationship between strategic listening and listening comprehension was positive and significant.

The higher the level of strategic listening these students obtained, the higher the score they attained on the listening comprehension test and vice versa.