THE EFFECT OF TEACHING STRATEGIES ON IRANIAN TEENAGE EFL LEARNERS' LISTENING COMPREHENSION ABILITY

This study investigates the impact of teaching strategies on Iranian EFL teenage learners’ listening comprehension ability.60 pre-intermediate female learners participated in this study, based on their scores on Oxford Placement Test. They have all been teenagers learning English in Kish Language Institute of Science and Technology in the north of Iran, Shahsavar. They were given a pre-test of listening comprehension at the beginning of the experiment, after that the researcher divided pre-intermediate students into experimental and control groups, each including 30 participants. Therefore, there were two groups to be taught. In control group the usual techniques of listening comprehension was practiced while the experimental group was taught the skills and strategies of listening comprehension as well. After 2o hour and half-long sessions of treatment all our subjects were given a post-test of listening comprehension. The results of data analysis revealed that teaching strategies helped students to improve their listening comprehension ability. One way ANCOVA showed that there was a statistically significant association between teaching strategies and EFL listening comprehension ability.