Developing and Validating a Questionnaire to Assess Strategic Competence in EFL Listening Performance: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach

Subject Areas : Research in English Language Pedagogy

Maryam Haghighi ¹ , Mojgan Rashtchi ² , Parviz Birjandi ³

1 - Department of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Literature, Humanities, and Social Sciences, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 - TEFL Department, Islamic Azad University, North Tehran Branch.
3 - Department of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Literature, Humanities, and Social Sciences, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2018-09-10 Accepted : 2019-01-12 Published : 2019-07-01

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