Expertise Reversal Effect and Teaching EFL Listening Skills to Lower Expertise Learners (Experiment 3)

The chapter describes the third experiment in details, which is about investigating the expertise reversal effect in teaching English listening skills to young learners of English as a foreign language in three instructional conditions: the read-only, the listen-only, and the read-and-listen. It starts with the research methods, followed by the presentation of the results. The chapter ends with a general discussion of the research findings within the framework of cognitive load theory and foreign language learning theories.