A Study of English Listening Comprehension Improvement via Productvs Process-Oriented Tactics: The Case Study of Shiraz EFL Learners

As listening comprehension plays an indispensable role in language learning, the way in which language instructorscover teaching listening comprehension has been controversial; the recent study selected two approaches to associatelistening comprehension tactics: product-oriented and process-oriented. A quasi-experimental design was adopted toget to the objectives. Using a random procedure, 120 male students ranging in age from 15 to 18 were selected andwere randomly allocated to two experimental and control groups. Subsequently, a pre-test was given to both groupsto approve that both groups began on equal traction, which was the case. The students were taught for 12 sessions,adopting a process-oriented approach for the experimental group and a product-oriented approach for the controlgroup. The evaluation of the two groups in terms of their overall performance on listening comprehension indicatedthat the performance of the students receiving training in process-oriented approach to listening comprehensioncompensated the control group trained through product-oriented approach, which suggests a clear advantage of theformer. The findings have implications for the ways in which listening comprehension, in general, are taught inlanguage classes.

Keywords:

listening comprehension , process-oriented approach , product-oriented approach