The results of the study indicated that there was evidence that the self-
instructional program, when used with cognitive and metacognitive learning
strategies, helped students to develop certain listening comprehension skills, i.e.
getting the general idea, getting the specific idea, predicting the next incident,
and making inferences. The program also developed their reading
comprehension skills, i.e. skimming, scanning, guessing the meaning of
unfamiliar words, predicting the next incident, making inferences, and
summarizing.