فاطمه نعمتی

The main goal of this investigation was to identify the relationship between brain dominance and listening strategies of intermediate Iranian foreign language learners of English. A total of 50 Farsi-speaking EFL learners were administered a brain dominance questionnaire. Participants were also asked to complete a Likert-scale questionnaire that included 20 items asking about the use of listening strategies. The data obtained from brain dominance and listening strategy use questionnaire was run through multiple statistical tests, including Pearson correlation and Spearman’s rank correlation, to identify the strategies the research participants had used and explain the relationship between brain dominance and listening strategy use. The results indicated that there’s a positive significant relationship between brain dominance and listening strategy use and the more a learner is considered to be right-brained, the more they use listening comprehension strategies. However, a relationship between brain dominance and each of the three categories of listening comprehension strategies (cognitive, metacognitive and socio-affective) could not be established.