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Investigating the Employment of Metacognitive Strategies in Listening … / Vakilifard 275

Based on the results, it seems that teachers teaching Persian to non-Iranian learners need to
emphasize the metacognitive strategies of each language group. This means that, they should
focus on the strategies they employ and explicitly teach unfamiliar metacognitive strategies. In
this way, they need to emphasize the metacognitive base of self-regulation and self-monitoring,
and use explicit explanations and role modeling to teach and confirm them. Undoubtedly, more
metacognitive awareness will eventually improve their listening comprehension skill. As
Wilson and Connery (2016’) emphasize, the purpose of teaching metacognitive strategies to
learners is “to guide them to consciously, and with increasing independence, recognize when
and how to employ cognitive strategies that work best for them across various situations” (p.
9).

Suggestions for Further Research
It seems that besides this research, further research should be carried out investigating more
samples. It is required that Persian language classes for foreigners to be observed and evaluated
so as to know whether metacognitive strategies are taught clearly and explicitly in the
classrooms. Finally, it is also important to investigate whether Persian learners who have
internalized metacognative strategies, are more able to use their abilities to achieve higher
proficiency levels in comparison to those who have not learned them.