Measuring Listening Strategies through Diary and Questionnaire

Subject Areas : Journal of Teaching English Language Studies

Ramin Taherkhani ¹ (Faculty of Humanities, Islamic Azad University, Takestan Branch, Iran)

Received: 2017-07-01 Accepted : 2017-08-07 Published : 2017-09-01

Keywords: strategies, diary, questionnaire, listening,

Abstract :

In order to determine the relationship between diary and questionnaire on measuring listeningstrategies, 25 students were selected. All the subjects who were the researchers’ ownstudents, study English as a second language. They wrote diaries about their use of listening.Strategies within 8 weeks. They also took the listening strategy questionnaire at the end of theterm. The students’ questionnaires and 8-week diaries revealed a week relationship betweenquestionnaires and diaries in the following order of importance: (a) cognitive strategy,(b)meta cognitive strategy,(c)task and person knowledge, (d)strategy and person knowledge, (e)meta cognitive strategy,(g) strategy knowledge,(h) person knowledge. A meta cognitivestrategy revealed no relationship between diaries and questionnaires. In this study there was aweek relationship between diary and questionnaire on measuring listening strategies(r=0/28,p<0/1).

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