Abstract :

The research was carried out with 50 university freshmen at Ba Ria – Vung Tau University (BVU) to find out how metacognitive strategy instruction motivates them to improve their listening comprehension. The researchers executed a qualitative action research method during twelve weeks, using a combination of the teachers and students’ diaries. Then semi-structured interviews in Vietnamese were purposefully administered to the participants and 1 observer by using individual-administered survey procedure. The findings in this paper indicate that metacognitive strategy instruction enhances learners’ listening comprehension performance and should be implemented in English communicative classes.

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Keywords :

Ba Ria – Vung Tau University, English communicative classes, English major, freshmen, listening comprehension performance, metacognitive strategy instruction

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