The Effect of Teaching Listening Strategies in the EFL Classroom
The present study has attempted to explore. the effect of teaching listening strategies to the high school students. Forty six students in a science high school participated in the study. Twenty three students were assigned to the control group and the other twenty three students were assigned to the experimental group. Both classes were provided with one month period listening class, but the experimental group was treated with additional lis­ tening strategies and the exercises associated with them The listening strate­ gies include listening for the main idea, listening for details, listening for specific information, listening for numerical information, listening with infer­ ences and listening for cause and effect. The results showed that the experimental group has gained more scores than the control group at the post-test.