The Relationship between Language Proficiency of EFL Students and Their Strategy Use in Listening Comprehension

Abstract

In response to the call for the replication of the researches carried out in the domain of strategy use and also in order to perform investigations within different cultural contexts, this study was conducted in Bandar Abbas, Iran, investigating the relationship between language proficiency of Iranian EFL learners and their strategy use in listening comprehension. In so doing, a general proficiency test, a listening comprehension test, and a listening strategy use questionnaire were used for data collection. The results indicated that there was a significant positive correlation between proficiency level and listening comprehension strategy use of the participants. Moreover, it was revealed that cognitive strategies were used more than any other strategy type by the participants. However, no relationship was found between gender of the participants and their listening strategy use. On the whole, it can be concluded that both teachers and learners need to be informed of the significance of these strategies in the betterment of this receptive skill.

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