LISTENING STRATEGIES OF EFL LEARNERS ACROSS PROFICIENCY LEVEL

Abstract

Listening is one of the skills that to be mastered by EFL learners. The ability to listen and understand person talking in English to communicate with other people is important. Students who are good at listening are able to understand more what the speaker says.  In this case listening strategies refers to techniques, approaches or actions that students take in their listening process to help their listening comprehension. The main goal of this investigation was to identify the listening strategies of Elementary, intermediate and advanced second language students in English and to know the listening strategies employed by the research’s participant. This research was conducted at The Eagle English course Pare Kediri. A total of 9 students were interviewed, they were questioned about the strategy they used to solve the difficulty in listening problems. Data collection methods used, interview. The interview data are transcribed and analyzed through thematic analysis. After analyzing the data from the interview, it was found that elementary, intermediate and advanced students used metacognitive, cognitive, and social affective strategies.