Abstract :
The aimed of this research to find the listening strategies that English languuge education students used at Islamic university, of Riau. Listening strategy is the tool
fof developing student's listening comprehension. Stategy of listening is used by students to compensate for uncertainties in understanding the meaning. Then, students find appropriate and unpropriated meaning in the convestation of native speaker. There were three categories of listening strategies. They were cognitive strategy, cognitive strategy, and socio-affective strategy. This research was analysis research, the lesearcher used qualitative methods. Thele were 151 students as population in this research, there are divided into four classes. This research used random sample, the researcher choose several students from each class. the total of the sample in this research is 30 students. I took the data, the
researcher gave questionnaire and interview to the students. there are 25 items in the questionnaire and for interview there are 5 questions only. The data took based on students answered in choose like scale (ofien, sometimes, seldom and
never). The result was most of students used metacognitive strategy to increase their ability in listening. The implication of this study are the students may get the appropriate strategies in listening subject and for the teachers it can motivate the teacher to find out the way to teach the appropriate the strategies to make them get the comprehesion in listening.