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The Metacognitive Awareness Listening Questionnaire(MALQ), developed and validated by Vandergrift et al. (2006), has become an important tool in research on the role of metacognition in learning foreign or second language listening. Despite its wide use, studies about the measurement characteristics of the questionnaire are rare and little is known about its measurement properties especially among Korean learners. In this paper, the psychometric properties of the MALQ were investigated in a study of 1000 college students by applying exploratory structural equation modeling. The results were then compared to those in the developers’ validation paper. While the current findings overall support the 5-dimensional structure of the MALQ, many discrepancies and problems were also identified, including: a low model fit, a high incidence of factor crossloads, the low total variance explained by the model, the possibility of missing some key factors, and the lack of explicit modeling for factor interdependence. These results are discussed in regard to their psychometric implications for the study of metacognition using the MALQ and some steps for improving the measure are suggested.