The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of metacognitive strategy training on the listening comprehension
of academic texts and the learners’ metacognitive awareness. A total of thirty university students were divided into
a control group and an experimental group and both of them performed the same repetitive listening task 8 times during 2
weeks. The experimental group was trained to write a strategy journal, but the control group was not. The participants were
asked to carefully complete the pre- and post-MALQ surveys before and after the study to examine the change of metacognitive
awareness. The findings of the study were as follows. First of all, the experimental group showed statistically significant
improvements in listening ability, and the positive effects were most evident amongst the low level students. Second, the
metacognitive awareness of the experimental group improved after the study, but there were no significant differences
between the high level and low level students. Third, the students reported that strategy journal writing helped them to become
more self-directed learners. In conclusion, strategy journal writing was helpful to improve the learners’ listening ability and
metacognitive awareness. This study, therefore, suggests strategy journal training an effective approach that offers metacognitive
listening strategy training for EFL learners.