ABSTRACT

In English listening, listening strategy is one of the important factors affecting students’ understanding. In recent years, the relationship between listening strategies and listening comprehension has received wide attention and become the focus of studies. This study used the original questions of listening comprehension section of College English Test-6 as experiment materials, the freshmen majoring in English in Jingjiang College of Jiangsu University as participants, the scores of the questionnaires for listening strategies as laboratory indexes, to study effects of different listening strategies on listening comprehension. The results of the study showed that firstly, the highest frequency of strategies using was cognitive strategies, followed by social/affective strategies, while the lowest frequency was meta-cognitive strategies using. Secondly, listening scores might be affected by listening strategies, but it did not entirely depend on the listening strategies. Thirdly, High Score Group and Low Score Group had significant difference in strategy using. Meta-cognitive strategies’ use frequency of High Score Group was significantly higher than Low Score Group. The result also showed that the different use frequencies of listening strategies of the independent college students really had a significant influence on listening comprehension.

Key words: Independent College; English Major; listening strategies; listening comprehension; difference

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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摘要

Chapter One INTRODUCTION-1

Chapter Two LITERATURE REVIEW-3

2.1 Theoretical Basis on Listening Strategies-3

2.2 Definition and Classification of Listening Strategies-4

Chapter Three RESEARCH DESIGN-6

3.1 Research Objective-6

3.2 Participants-6

3.3 Research Instrument-7

3.4 Research Procedure-7

Chapter Four RESULTS AND DISCUSSION-8

4.1 Data Analysis-8

4.2 Overall Situation of the Use of Listening Strategies-9

4.3 Effects of Listening Strategies on Listening Comprehension-10

4.4 High Score Group V. S. Low Score Group-11

4.4.1 Strategies often used / seldom used by High Score Group-12

4.4.2 Strategies often used / seldom used by Low Score Group-13

Chapter Five CONCLUSION-16

REFERENCES-18

APPENDIX I: Tests for Listening Comprehension Level-20

APPENDIX II: A Questionnaire for Listening Strategies-29