Participants took a listening performance test, and answered two questionnaires designed to measure test anxiety.
There was a significant difference between the effects of two noises on listening performance when noise level was 75 dB, but no difference was found between railway and road traffic noises on task performance.
Two distinct time windows showed correlations between dichotic listening performance and ear effects on magnetic responses reflecting early gain factors (ca. 75 ms post-stimulus onset) and binaural fusion strategies (ca. 200 ms), respectively.
He therefore mentioned that "format difference did not considerably affect listening performance" (p. 31).
Both studies concluded that the respective strategy intervention programs had a positive impact on listening performance.
Apart from studying whether the designed listening strategy training enhanced EFL learners' listening performance, Lotfia, et al. (2016) intended to find out whether different approaches to listening strategy training had differential effects on listening performance, as well as how participants themselves evaluated the impact of strategy training on their listening performance.
Graham and Macaro (2008), for instance, measured the effects of strategy instruction on both the listening performance and self-efficacy of the participants against a comparison group.
I spoke to King about his research into "State anxiety in listening performance". Most of us believe that "anxiety" only impacts the person giving the speech or presentation.
The results showed that when the questions and options were both given orally, "there was no significant difference between the mean scores in the two formats and repeating questions did not enhance listening performance" (p. 52).
Students completed most of these worksheets in class and only a few at home (as homework) during the course of the textbook unit and, at the end of it, they submitted them back to the teacher, so she could provide students with feedback about their listening performance, auditory problems, and strategic behaviour.
