IV. DISCUSSION
One of the findings of this study is that listening strategies are significantly related to listening ability. This finding is in accord with other findings in which students of listening strategy groups outperformed students of non -listening strategy groups in L2 listening (Rubin. 1990), and in which effective listeners used more listening strategies, specifically self –monitoring for checking comprehension, inferencing for using information in the text, and elaboration for relating new information to prior knowledge than ineffective listeners did (O'Malley & Chamot. 1989), The role of listening strategies in listening ability in turn supports the role of language earning strategies in L2 acquisition Even though many empirical studies report that students' use of language learning strategies is related to their L2 proficiency (Bialystok, 1981: Chamot & Kupper, 1989: Mullins, 1992: Park, 1997: Pulitzer & Mc°warty. 1985)). The magmtude of this relationship was not reported or was hard to build in several studies. Thus, the significant relationship between listening strategies and listening ability in this study clearly supports claims for the importance of the role of strategy use in L2 acquisition.