| الملخص: | <p>This study investigated the effects on listening comprehension and self-efficacy of teaching speech stream segmentation to a group of Grade 11 learners of French over a period of 15 weeks. Participants (N=45) came from two intact groups of French as a second language at a school in the south east of England. In the experimental group (n=24), learners undertook a variety of listening exercises aimed at improving their ability to segment the speech stream. The comparison group (n=21), taught by the same teacher in the previous academic year, followed a syllabus which included the same amount of listening work, but with no specific work on speech stream segmentation. Listening proficiency was measured at the beginning and the end, and in addition the experimental group completed a self-efficacy questionnaire. As hypothesised, the experimental group outperformed the comparison group on the final control measure (p<0.5) for comprehension. The hypothesis that confidence levels would increase was also verified. Ten participants in the intervention group were interviewed and data from the transcripts provided evidence as to why speech stream segmentation work appeared to be a successful intervention to boost the listening skills and self-efficacy of this group of lower intermediate learners of French.</p>
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