Expertise Reversal Effect and Teaching EFL Listening Skills (Experiment 1)

The chapter describes the first experiment in details, which is about investigating the expertise reversal effect in teaching English listening skills to high expertise and low expertise learners respectively 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.