The Effect of Advance Organizers on Iranian EFL Learners’ Listening Comprehension

The purpose of current study is to investigate the effect of advance organizers on Iranian EFL Learners’ listening comprehension. For doing this study, 48 female students learning English at intermediate level in Zaban Gostaran English institutes in Tehran, Iran, were randomly selected and were divided into two groups including experimental group (using advance organizers and schema activation) and control group. First, both groups were given a listening comprehension pre-test. Then, the experimental group received the advance organizer tasks and was taught how to activate their background knowledge before listening. Regarding the control group, there was no treatment. Finally, the posttest took place in the following class meeting. The results indicated that using advance organizer and background knowledge activation strategy could play a significant role in developing the level of listening comprehension among Iranian EFL learners.

Keywords:

advance organizer , schema , listening strategies , listening comprehension , EFL