Metacognitive-Strategies-Based Instruction and Discovering Listening Approaches' Effects on Compound Dictation of Chinese EFL Learners

An empirical study on the effects of two approaches which are metacognitive-strategies-based instruction and discovering listening to teaching Chinese freshmen compound dictation shows that both DL and MSBI groups made significant progress on the final comprehension measure which reveals that both approaches can effectively improve participants' listening comprehension,while DL group had more progress in listening comprehension compared with SBI group.