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The metacognitive strategies refer to the actions that learners use consciously while

listening to a spoken text attentively. Metacognitive strategies deal with knowing about

learning. It means that learners learn how to learn with metacognitive strategies. With

the help of this language learning strategy, learners are involved in thinking about the

 process of learning while they are planning, monitoring, and evaluating their own

learning, exactly like pre tasks activities (olden, !""#$. %earners check up andappraise their comprehension of the listening text by the use of metacognitive strategies.

&n the other hand, the cognitive strategies are separate learning activities and they are

 basically activities that are used by learners in order to understand the linguistic input

and get knowledge. 'or example, when a learner finds a difficult word in a text and

inferring the meaning of that word from the context, in fact he used the cognitive

strategy. In addition, cognitive strategies are those that control the input or use a certain

skill to complete a particular task (olden, !""# Meang, !"") *rifith, !""# +umi,

!""- Martine, //)$. +ccording to &0Malley and 1hamot (//"$, cognitive strategies

are strategies that 2reflect mental manipulation of tasks2, such as practicing and

analying, enable learners to understand and produce new language by many different

ways. +nd the last one, social3affective strategies refers to strategies that learners use tolearn by interaction with their classmates and 4uestions that are asked from teacher to

understand the special sub5ect, or remove or lower their anxiety. owever, 5ust a small

number of researchers have tried to study the listening strategy use and