Languaging is considered as the process of making knowledge through the use of language for explaining the concepts. Teaching listening strategies in this study provided students with moments of languaging in L1 that subsequently allowed them to transfer certain strategies to listening comprehension. This study investigated the effects of different modes of languaging on the listening performance of EFL learners. It draws on sociocultural theories and languaging. Initially, an Oxford Placement Test was administered to 62 EFL intermediate learners to ensure homogeneity. Then, the participants were assigned to two groups, collaborative and private mode of languaging. Before applying treatment, the participants were also given a sample of (PET) listening test as a pre-test. During treatment sessions, the listening tasks were practiced by collaborative mode of languaging in one group, while in the second group tasks were accomplished by private form within 10 sessions. At the end of treatment, a post-test (PET) was administered. Consequently, the mean scores of both groups on the post-test led to the rejection of the null hypothesis implying that the learners in the collaborative languaging group and private languaging group significantly improved in terms of listening performance. However, the private form of languaging outperformed the collaborative one.
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