LEARNING STRATEGIES USED BY EFL UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS TEACHERS FOR LISTENING SKILL
LEARNING STRATEGIES USED BY EFL UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS TEACHERS FOR LISTENING SKILL

Summary/Abstract: EFL listening skill is one of the four language skills that is important to every language learner. The importance of the listening skill in learning a foreign language may help language learners to understand speech in a foreign language. The purpose of the study was to explore the listening strategies that EFL undergraduate students teachers used in three English study programs of three public higher education institutions in Sumatra, Indonesia. 604 EFL undergraduate students teachers from three higher education institutions who passed in listening subjects participated in the study. This study used a quantitative method with a survey approach. In analyzing the data, researchers used SPSS to find out the reliability and Microsoft Excel to describe the percentage and frequency of listening strategies that EFL undergraduate students teachers used. There were three categories of listening strategies that were investigated in this study. They were the metacognitive strategy, the cognitive strategy, and the socio affective strategy. The findings of this study indicated that most of EFL undergraduate students teachers tended to use metacognitive strategies to increase the students’ listening skill. Meanwhile, based on gender, most of the female students were likely to use metacognitive strategies and the male students seemed to use cognitive strategies to improve their listening skill. The findings of the study suggest that in order to acquire an acceptable listening skill, all parties including lecturers, should provide students with sufficient learning materials that encourage the students to prepare for the lectures.

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