Abstract:

In this study, we aim to identify the effects of metacognitive strategies education on listening comprehension skills, attitudes towards listening and listening anxiety on seventh grade students. In this research used to pretest-posttest control gruop quasiexperimental model. The study has been conducted with 100 7.th grade students, studying in the city of Van. As a pre-test ‘‘Listening Attitude Scale’’ developped by Tayşi (2014) and ‘‘Listening Anxiety Scale For Secondary School Students’’ developped by Melanlıoğlu (2013) have been applied. Further more in order to determine if there are factors that effects the grades of pre-test and post test information has been gathered from students by ‘‘Personal Information Form’’. The data has been evaluated in statistical means and it has been revealed by the evaluation that there was no meaningful difference between the groups. By neutral appointment two groups have been identified as control groups and two groups have been identified as experiment groups.In the experiment group, except fort the pre-test and post-test,8 weeks of metacognitive strategies listening education has been given whereas the control group continued their education according to the regular Turkish teaching curriculum. Spss package program has been used in analyzing the data from the research. As a result of the analysis it has been determined that there is a meaningful advantage on students who were given metacognitive strategies education and there was a advancement listening comprehension skill. However, it has been determined that there was no meaningful difference on the attitudes towards listening and listening anxiety.

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