The Adaptation of Metacognitive Awareness Listening Questionnaire into Turkish
Öz
It has been acknowledged that the role of metacognitive awareness in foreign language learning is significant as it includes monitoring and regulating cognition to complete a task in a foreign language successfully. The metacognitive awareness of foreign language students has been investigated to understand and provide evidence for a better understanding of language acquisition process in line with four main language skills. In particular, the relation of metacognition with listening skill has been investigated with Vandergrift et al. (2006) with a scale which is one of the reliable and valid instruments. Since the scale was developed in English, its implementation in the Turkish context required the necessity of translation and adaptation into Turkish language. Therefore, the aim of this study is to adapt the Metacognitive Awareness Listening Questionnaire to Turkish and provide reliability and validity results. To this end, 344 Turkish EFL learners participated in the study. The results showed that the scale had one-factor structure and worked better with 3 items (3rd, 8th and 16th) omitted. The final version of the Turkish version yielded reliable and valid results for future references and implementation in the field.
Anahtar Kelimeler
Metacognitive awareness listening scale, Listening skill, Scale adaptation, Reliability, Validity
Kaynakça
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