The Relationship Between Pre-listening Activities and Listening Strategies Use

摘要

Listening strategy use is recognized as one key factor influencing English listening comprehension.The study involves three listening texts with three kinds of different pre-listening activities,namely,a copy of related Key words;a related reading passage;an easier listening preview.And the study found out four listening strategies seemed to be specially affected by the prelistening activities,elaboration,fixation,directed attention and real-time assessment of input,and effective listeners’almost used two times of metacognitive strategies than that of less-effective listeners.