Listening Strategies of EFL Listening Higher Achievers of The English Education Department University of Islam Malang

Abstract

The higher achievers have different abilities and character than lower achievers. Therefore, this study aimed to investigating the listening strategies used by EFL listening higher achievers. The objective of this studies was to describe the listening strategies employed by EFL higher achievers inside and outside the class. Descriptive qualitative method was applied to find the listening strategies used by EFL listening higher achievers inside and outside the class. The questionnaire by likert scale model with a range of 1-5, 1 for strongly agree, and 5 for strongly disagree shared to 13 participants from the different group who have high score in listening. The interview session also conducted to 3 participant who mostly answer strongly agree in questionnaire. The finding of this study showed that three components of cognitive, meta-cognitive, and practice (self-regulation) strategies were used by EFL listening higher achievers inside and outside the class. The cognitive strategy was the one most often used by learners, followed by meta-cognitive strategy, then practice (self-regulation) strategy. EFL listening higher achievers focus on the instruction, memorizing and understanding of vocabularies, reviewed, practiced and evaluated. Based on the result, several strategies were used by EFL listening higher achievers inside and outside the class. The EFL listening higher achievers were often used cognitive strategy inside and outside the class to improve their listening comprehension. The meta-cognitive and practice (self-regulation) strategies were also used by EFL listening higher achiever insid and outside the class to improve their listening comprehension. Therefore, the researcher suggests to learners and teachers to use the cognitive, meta-cognitive, and practice (self-regulation) strategies in process of improving listening comprehension. The researcher also suggests to the next researcher for adding participants and also used other method to produce stronger finding about listening strategies of EFL listening higher achievers. Keywords: Listening Strategy, EFL Listening Higher Achievers, Inside The Class, Outside The Class