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The study aimed at investigating the effect of metacognitive strategy in developing listening skills of third year secondary schools students at Taif city. The sample of the study consisted of (60) third year secondary school students, equally divided into control and experimental groups. The study used the quasi-experimental design. The researcher prepared a list of listening skills of the English language, a test of listening skills, and by using independent samples t-test and eta square; to calculate the effect size, the study revealed the following results there were statistically significant differences at between the mean scores of the experimental group, and the control group in the post-measurement in understanding overall meaning, in auditory speech analysis skills, in deductive thinking skills; in favor of the experimental group. There were statistically significant differences between the mean scores of the experimental group, and the control group in the post-measurement in listening skills combined; in favor of the experimental group. In light of the findings, the study recommended to: train teachers of English language to use metacognitive strategy in teaching listening skills. (Published abstract)