ผลของการสอนกลวิธีการฟังที่มีต่อความสามารถในการฟังของผู้เรียนคนไทยผู้ใหญ่ที่เรียนภาษาอังกฤษเป็นภาษาต่างประเทศ EFFECTS OF LISTENING STRATEGY TRAINING ON THE LISTENING PERFORMANCE OF THAI EFL ADULT LEARNERS
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Listening Strategy Training, Listening Performance, Thai EFL Adult LearnersAbstract
The objectives of this study were to investigate the extent to which Thai graduate students used the listening strategies they had been trained to, the effect of the training on their listening performance, and their opinions regarding the listening strategy training materials. Twenty-four Master’s Degree students who needed to attain the English proficiency level required for graduation voluntarily participated in the 15-hour listening strategy training over a period of 10 weeks. The participants were trained to use certain cognitive and metacognitive strategies. One week after the training, they took a Chulalongkorn University Test of English Proficiency (CU-TEP), a standardized English test developed and administered by Chulalongkorn University. Their scores were compared to those of the latest CU-TEP they had taken before joining the study. The analysis of the means of the two test scores using a dependent samples t-test revealed no significant difference. However, the questionnaire the participants completed after taking the post-training CU-TEP revealed that they had employed the listening strategies which they had learned at a high level and they expressed favorable opinions of the listening strategy training materials. They considered the strategy instruction highly beneficial to the improvement of their English listening skills. Finally, limitations of the study are discussed for further studies.
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