A Study On The Correlation Between English Listening Anxiety And English Listening Strategies Of Senior High School Students

Language learning is a complicated process,and listening plays a very important role among the skills of listening,speaking,reading,and writing.Over the years,more and more researchers have begun to study listening,many scholars at home and abroad also do a lot of listening researches from different angles.Among them,the learners' affective factors that influence listening are studied more.In recent years,there are many researches of the college students' listening anxiety and listening strategy,and many achievements have been made,but the study on senior high school students is not as so much.Hence this study examines closely the correlation between English listening anxiety and listening strategies of senior high school students by using quantitative and qualitative research methods.The thesis mainly explores the following three aspects: the state of the subjects' English listening anxiety,the differences of using listening strategy between the high and low anxiety group of subjects and the correlation between listening strategy and listening anxiety.This thesis adopts the questionnaire and interview methods,59 Grade 11 students from Middle School Attached to Hebei Normal university are investigated.Then the author collects the relevant data and uses SPSS 19.0 to make descriptive analysis,statistical analysis,the correlation coefficient of paired sample T-test analysis and independent sample T-test analysis.In the pre-test,the study investigates 59 subjects' background information and the correlation between listening anxiety and the frequency of using listening strategy.On this basis,the author divides subjects into experimental group and control group.The experimental group are given listening strategy training for about five weeks.After strategy training,this study uses the same questionnaire again to measure the participants' listening anxiety and the frequency of using listening strategy.According to the data,the thesis further studies the relationship between listening anxiety and listening strategy by using independent sample T-test and paired sample T-test analysis methods.The results show that English listening anxiety widely exists in senior high school students' listening;students' listening anxiety level is also obviously negatively correlated with the frequency of using listening strategy.In addition,high and low anxiety groups have obvious differences in the use of listening strategies.What is more,the author tries to explore the main reasons of listening anxiety for the senior high school students by interviews.And the result shows that the characteristics of listening and listeners themselves are two major factors that cause anxiety in listening comprehension.Finally,according to the research results of this thesis,the author gives some suggestion on listening teaching of senior high schools,and hopes this thesis can help the senior high school teachers and students to better perceive the relationship between listening anxiety and listening strategy;senior high school teachers are hoped to realized the necessity of training students' listening comprehension strategies in listening teaching,so teachers can try to adopt effective measures to help students overcome listening anxiety and improve their confidence in listening study,eventually to achieve the goal of improving the students' English listening level.