The Role of Factors in Listening Comprehension
This essay critically evaluates research on listening comprehension and the factors that affect it. The studies are divided into three groups according to their methodological approach: experimental, correlation, and mixed-methods. Experimental studies allow for the establishment of cause-and-effect relationships between different variables, while correlation studies help to identify relationships between variables. Mixed-methods studies combine both approaches in order to obtain a more complete picture of the problem under investigation.