The Effect of Using Learning Strategies in Improving EFL College Students' Listening Comprehension

Abstract

This study aims at identifying the differences between the 1^st and 4^th year college students  Department of English - College of Education –Ibn Rushd for Human Sciences/ University of Baghdad    in  Learning Strategies LS and  Listening Comprehension CL. The study is limited to the 1^st   and 4^th year since 1^st year students represent the beginners level and the 4^th year college ones represent the advanced level during the academic year 2015-2016.

The number of the whole population is (418) which are distributed into two types: pilot and main. In order to achieve the aims of the study and to test its hypotheses, the instruments are: a questionnaire: by adopting the Oxford's (1990) LS classification system and the TOEFL to assess students' performance. The obtained results in section one of the TOEFL indicate that there is no statistically significant difference between 1^st and 4^th year students. And there is a statistically significant difference between 1^st and 4^th year students in the total score of the questionnaire in favor of the 1^st year students.