Exploring Various Strategies in Listening Comprehension : A Review of Selected Paper

Abstract

In listening English there are many moments of misunderstanding where someone says is captured into a different meaning by the listener. Why is this so common? This is because many people do not use the right strategy in listening or even many people who do not know the various strategies in listening skills. In listening, a strategy that is appropriate for the situation is needed. In the selected paper putting a data using qualitative method, listening logs collected from35 undergraduate students were evaluated for the effects as perceived by listeners - of three types of cognitive strategies, such as, interest management, asking pre-questions, and elaboration techniques. The results support the hypothesis that these strategies, when appropriately adapted to the listening context, facilitate information processing from listening.Using the right strategies in the right time of listening can increase one's power in listening to something, process information quickly and also receive information faster than those who do not use the strategy in listening. A listener can do little to change the attractiveness of the material or of the speaker, but he or she can reflect on his or her subjective perception and evaluation of the topic. Interest is determined by a set of emotional, evaluative, and cognitive decisions that a person has made on a topic (Krapp, 1992). Active interest building can be initiated by redefining the current person-topic relation on the emotional, evaluative, cognitive level. The question is how individuals build interest in a topic and what behavioral and cognitive effects ensue.This strategies can be used for all people whether it is students and even people who work, the diversity of strategies in listening is very helpful for the learning and teaching process and even helps students who have difficulty in problems difficult to receive and process information properly.