关于中国非英语专业学生听力策略的调查

A study of the listening strategies employed by non-English majors in China

本研究采用定量分析的方法,对178名苏州大学非英语专业学生使用听力策略的情况进行调查,结果发现:(1)各类听力策略按使用频率排列,其先后顺序为:意义策略、社会/情感策略、依赖母语策略、形式策略和元认知策略;(2)听力策略对听力成绩有一定的预测力,但其预测能力有限;(3)高分组和低分组在社会/情感策略、监察策略、推理策略、语法策略、依赖母语策略和生词策略上均存在显著差异。高分组更多地运用社会/情感、监察、推理和语法策略,而低分组则倾向于运用依赖母语和生词策略。研究结果对听力教学和策略训练有一定的指导意义。

This paper reports a study that investigates the listening strategies of 178 Chinese non-English majors by means of quantitative method . The major findings are as follows: 1) Ranked in terms of total frequency, the strategies used by the testees are meaning-focused, social/affective, mother-tongue-reliance, form-focused and metacognitive strategies; 2) Listening strategies can have positive effect on listening outcome, but only to a limited degree; 3) There exists variation in the strategy use between effective and ineffective listeners. The variation is mostly demonstrated in social/affective strategies, monitoring, inferencing, grammar, mother-tongue-reliance and new-word strategies. Effective listeners use social/affective strategies, monitoring, inferencing and grammar strategies more often, whereas ineffective listeners apply mother-tongue-reliance and new-word strategies at a higher frequency. This study has also its pedagogical and practical implications.