3.2 research questions of the study
    the pilot study specifically addressed the following research questions:
    1. what is the relationship between learners' metacognitive listening awareness and their listening comprehension under three different listening conditions as:
    a. when they listen to the text just once;
    b. when they listen to the text three times at different speeds; and
    c. when they engage in a topic-familiarization activity before listening to the text three times at different speeds?
    2. what is the relationship between learners' metacognitive listening awareness and their incidental vocabulary acquisition from listening tasks under the same three conditions as above?