Metacognitive Listening Comprehension Strategies of Arab English Language Learners

Table 1

Distribution of items on subscales.

Subscale	Items	Cronbach’s alpha
Directed attention (DA)	2, 6, 12, and 16	0.72
Mental translation (MT)	4, 11, and 18	0.72
Personal knowledge (PK)	3, 8, and 15	0.67
Planning and evaluation (PE)	1, 10, 14, 20, and 21	0.78
Problem-solving (PS)	5, 7, 9, 13, 17, and 19	0.80
Overall		0.74