Exploring the Effect of Digital Literacy Skill and Learning Style of Students on Their Meta-Cognitive Strategies in Listening

This study investigates the most dominant factors influencing Indonesian students' listening meta-cognitive strategies. The interaction of digital literacy skills research instruments and learning styles can improve the students' meta-cognitive strategies in listening skills. The role of digital literacy skills research instruments and learning styles is to enhance students' listening meta-cognitive strategies with a total sample of 242. This study uses quantitative research by applying the ex-postfacto method. Analysis of research data using descriptive and inferential statistics with a linear regression test. The results demonstrate that the pupils’ digital literacy skills had the most dominant impact. The regression results disclosed that the Rvalue of the influence of the literacy variable on the meta-cognitive listening strategy was 0.468, meaning that it had an effect of 46.8%, while the learning style was only 19.20%. The interaction between digital literacy skills and learning styles could improve the students' meta-cognitive listening strategies, approximately by 50.40%. Digital literacy skills and learning styles have a positive role in improving students' meta-cognitive listening strategies. A student’s meta-cognitive listening technique improves as his or her digital literacy skills and learning style improves