研究生公共英语听力焦虑与听力策略的相关性研究

A Study on Correlation between Listening Anxiety and Listening Strategies of Non-English Majors of Postgraduate

基于情感过滤假说和学习者个体差异为理论框架,采用问卷调查法、访谈法和有声思维法,对新疆大学非英语专业硕士研究生的200名学生进行了调查,结果表明:非英语专业硕士研究生存在听力焦虑,大部分属于高度焦虑者;在听力策略使用方面使用最多的是认知策略,其次是元认知策略,最后是社会/情感策略;听力焦虑和听力策略中的元认知策略、认知策略和社会/情感策略之间的关系都呈负相关,与认知策略最具有相关性,其次是元认知策略,相关性低的是社会/情感策略;同时发现,善听者与不善听者之间在元认知策略的使用上存在显著性差异。

This study is based on Krashen’s affective filter hypothesis and Rod Ellis’s individual differences of foreign language learners.Questionnaires,interview and think-aloud method are used in the study.The questionnaires are used for investigating two hundred non-English majors of postgraduate students in Xin Jiang University.The result shows that non-English majors of postgraduate students have listening anxiety,which most of them belongs to high degree of anxiety;the listening strategies what they used most widely are cognitive strategies,followed by metacognitive strategies.The least one is social/affective strategies.The correlation between listening anxiety and listening strategies is negative correlation.Meanwhile,the effective learners use more cognitive strategies than the ineffective strategies.