Abstract:
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.
Machine summary:
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.
The present study attempted to investigate the significant effect of different modes of explicit languaging in L1about listening strategies on teaching listening and also it compared the private and collaborative forms of languaging.
Data Collection Procedure The present study aimed to investigate the significant effect of using different modes of languaging on the listening performance of Iranian students at the intermediate level in Tehran, Iran.
The difference between the two experimental groups lay in the form of practicing listening strategies and carrying out the intended assignment through collaborative (CL) and private languaging (PL).
Data Analysis Procedure This study was undertaken in order to explore the effect of private and collaborative modes of languaging on the listening performance of EFL learners.
2. Research Question 2 The goal of the second research question was to explore whether the private form of languaging has any significant effect on listening performance of EFL learners.
Discussion The purpose of the study was to explore the effect of different modes of languaging on the listening comprehension of Iranian EFL learners.
The data analysis results confirmed the significant impact of languaging in L1 (in both collaborative and private forms) on the listening performance of EFL learners.
In this study, languaging role as a mediating factor was significant to internalize the instructed strategies and consequently learners’ listening performance.