Metacognitive listening strategies awareness in learning English as a foreign language: a comparison between university and high-school students

The present study investigated metacognitive listening strategies awareness among Iranian university and high-school students learning English as a foreign language. To achieve this goal, one hundred and twenty-two university students and one hundred and sixteen high-school students filled in the Metacognitive Awareness Listening Questionnaire (MALQ) with five subparts including problem-solving, planning and evaluation, translation, person knowledge, and directed attention. The result of the data analysis revealed that university and high-school students were different with regard to their metacognitive listening strategies awareness in general, and in person knowledge and mental translation components. (C) 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of Prof. Huseyin Uzunboylu.