The Impact of Content Related Information on Iranian EFL Learners' Listening Comprehension

Abstract-The present study investigates the effect of content related information on listening comprehension and how far it assists EFL language learners with their performance on post-lecture detailed listening comprehension questions. Subjects took a TOFEL test, served as a pre-test to be randomized in a control and experimental group. In experimental group performed pre-listening tasks through which they received general prior information about the content of the lectures. They then listened and answered some multiple-choice comprehension questions that asked for the specific information in the lectures. The result of the data revealed that the experimental group did not perform significantly better than the control group. In other words , the treatment appeared to have no significant effect on the performance of the experimental group on post-lecture listening comprehension questions.

Keywords: Listening comprehension,content related information, prior information, top down, bottom up.