studied the influence of listening strategy training on Japanese
EFL learners‘ listening competence, and it showed that the effect of listening strategy training was more discernible on
perception than on comprehension, especially for those students who received low scores on the G-TELP.
Research into speech perception has shown that listening comprehension involves far more than mere decoding of
the sounds. Rivers (1983b) in her discussion of speech perception identifies three stages. First, the listener must
recognize that the sounds are an actual message and not just noise.