Improving EFL Learners' Listening Skills Through Strategy Adoption and Strategy Training

摘要

This thesis aims at emphasizing the importance of strategy adoption in listening comprehension and strategy training in teaching listening.It begins with an overview of language learning strategies in listening, followed by a survey concerning students' listening habits and their attitudes towards strategy adoption in listening. Then based on the discussion of the survey findings, several approaches in listening acquisition and teaching are suggested to solve the present problems. Two studies are made, which are designed to elicit the statistical evidence to support what has been suggested. Next it gives a description of the realization of strategy training in teaching listening. The description may give great inspiration to college teachers in helping students improve their listening comprehension.At the end of this thesis, some pedagogical implications have been put forward.

目录

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Chapter one:Introduction

1.1 Background of this thesis

1.2 Overview of this thesis

Chapter Two;Language Learning Strategies

2.1 Language learning strategies defined

2.2 The research into language learning strategies

2.3 The characteristics of LLS

2.4 Different kinds of LLS

2.5 The importance of LLS for L2/FL learning and teaching

Chapter Three:Students' Strategies in Listening Comprehension

3.1 The definition of listening

3.2 The most important features in listening

3.3 The process of listening

3.4 The strategies adopted by students in listening

Chapter Four:A Survey on Listening Comprehension

4.1 The survey

4.1.1 Method

4.1.2 The results

4.1.3 Discussion

4.2 The findings' influence on teaching listening

4.2.1 Students' emphasis on vocabulary

4.2.2 Students' preference to the strategy of prediction

4.2.3. Students' attitudes toward strategy adoption

Chapter Five:Two Studies on Strategy Adoption and Training

5.1 Study Ⅰ

5.1.1 Significance of the study

5.1.2 Subjects

5.1.3 Procedure

5.1.4 Results

5.1.5 Discussion

5.2 Study Ⅱ

5.2.1 Question/Hypothesis

5.2.2 Significance/Value of the study

5.2.3 Subjects

5.2.4 Type of data

5.2.5 Procedure

5.2.6 Type of analysis

5.2.7 Results and conclusions

5.2.8 Discussion

Chapter Six;Strategy Training in EFL

6.1 Teacher's role as a trainer of strategies

6.2 Strategy training in the language classroom

6.3 Strategy training in listening

6.3.1 An interview

6.3.2 A listening lesson

6.4 Conclusion

Chapter Seven:Pedagogical Implications and Conclusions

7.1 The nature of listening

7.2 The emphasis on the application of listening strategies

7.3 The contextualized approach in listening

7.4 The promotion of active listening through applying the strategy of prediction

7.5 The strategies-based instruction in teaching listening

7.6 The ongoing monitoring of students' use of instructed strategies

References

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