A SURVEY ON APPLYING METACOGNITIVE STRATEGIES TO LISTENING COMPREHENSION FOR MAJOR ENGLISH JUNIOR AT SAIGON UNIVERSITY

1/ In which extent do you evaluate your English level?

• Advanced
• Intermediate
• Pre-intermediate
• Basic

2/ What skill in English is the most difficult to obtain?

• Listening
• Speaking
• Reading
• Writing

3/ Do you think that listening comprehension is a challenge?

• Yes
• No

4/ How do you think the importance of background knowledge in Listening?

• Very important
• Fairly important
• Important
• Not important

5/ What do you think of the subject “Tourism”, is it familiar to you?

• It is familiar and easy to handle.
• It is quite familiar and not too difficult to deal with.
• It is not familiar and hard to understand the content and the vocabulary used.
• I have never heard of it before.

6/ Do you have any strategies before taking a listening test?

• Yes
• No

7/ What do you do at the very first time before taking listening test?

• Reading the question carefully
• Thinking about the topic you are going to hear
• Scanning keywords and identify word forms, synonyms
• Doing nothing but waiting to hear.

8/ How often did you get distracted during the listening task?

• I paid full attention to the test
• I sometimes be distracted and could not keep up with the listening task.
• I lost my focus every time I took the listening test.
• I rarely got distracted but overall I still managed to keep up.

9/ During the listening test you have taken, did you try to translate these words “coastline, coach, vineyard, lighthouse, habour”?

• Yes, I translate everything I heard from the test.
• Yes, I translate some of the words mention above.
• No, I only heard and understood these words in English, I didn’t translate it

10/ Did you understand the word “crèche” in the task, if you did not, what did you do?

• I knew and understood the word.
• I took time and tried to guess the meaning of the word from the given context.
• I passed it and continued listening to the rest.