The Difference of Learning Strategies in Listening Skill Employed by Thailand and Indonesian EFL University Students

Listening is pivotal in understanding communication because it requires other language element’s competency. As listening needs a set of complex skill, the learners must have learning strategies to boost their proficiency. This research therefore aims to identify the difference in the use of strategies in learning listening skill between Thailand and Indonesian EFL university students. The data were collected from fourth semester students in the form of opinions. The data were analyzed by questionnaire of two strategies in learning listening skill. The result showed that there is significant difference in the use of strategies of Thailand and Indonesian EFL university students, including cognitive strategies listening strategy. They are comprehension processes, storing and memory processes and using and retrieval processes. Metacognitive listening strategy. They are planning, monitoring and evaluating. The Indonesian EFL university students mostly use cognitive listening strategies while Thailand EFL university students mostly use metacognitive listening strategies.