Fostering EFL Learners’ Motivation: Quick and Narrow Listening Strategies

Abstract

Listening comprehension is an essential language skill, as well as a prerequisite for oral proficiency. There are crucial factors influencing success in listening comprehension, among all these factors, motivation is the most important of them. Motivation is regarded as an influential element in the success of any activity. The present paper concentrates on the impact of extensive and repeated listening strategies on EFL learners’ motivation at Baft English language institutes. It was a quantitative experimental study in nature. A questionnaire designed based on the questionnaires of Salimi ,2000 ;  Dornyei, 2002 ; and Csizar and Dornyei ,2005 was used in order to see the impact of repeated and extensive listening strategies on EFL learners’ motivation. The questionnaire was given to the  students in three groups of one control group and two experimental groups (as pre and post  questionnaire).It was found  that implementing repeated listening strategy, but not extensive listening strategy  has the potentiality of increasing EFL learners’ motivation.