1. The Relationship Between Listening Anxiety and
Listening Strategies Used by English Major
Students
Presenter ： Adam Wang
Adviser ： Dr. Pi-Ying Teresa
Hsu
Date ： Jan 6, 2014
4. Introduction
Background
Listening is an essential skill which develops faster than
speaking and often affects the growth of reading and
writing abilities in learning a new language.
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5. Introduction
Purpose of the study
To probe into the relationship between
listening strategies and listening anxiety
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7. Introduction
Significance
3. Effective will give the EFL
1. The studystrategies employed by
2. The study will also provide
high listening anxietyteachers can
teachers with appropriate advice
right directions for listeners and
reduced student’s anxious feeling,
and assistance to get over student
students to succeed English
in order to in English listening and
difficulties enhance the listening
listening teaching and learning.
comprehension of less effective
to lower down student’s listening
listeners
anxiety.
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9. Listening Comprehension
As Sadighi & Zare (2006) indicated that the difficulty of
exploring the listening skill and the assumption that
learners develop the listening skill has a lack of research
in the listening skill of the foreign language.
Sadighi & Zare (2006)
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10. Definition of Listening Strategies
Defined the term –listening strategy– is used to refer to
the strategies that listeners consciously or unconsciously
use in order to understand, analyze, and interpret a text.
(Vandergrift, 2007)
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11. Types of Listening Strategies
Learning strategies were categorized as meta-cognitive,
cognitive, and socio-affective strategies are steps taken
to contribute learners to acquire, store, retrieve, and use
information, these strategies which has been developed.
(O’Malley & Chamot’s, 1990)
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12. Types of Listening Strategies
3. Socio-affective
2. Cognitive
1. Meta-cognitive learners to
employed by
utilized by classmates ,scope
listeners to to and
cooperate with comprehension
to increase
with material to be learn or to
question the teacher for
second language retention
apply specific techniques
clarification
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13. Definition of Listening Anxiety
Is a psychological term, refers to a personality trait
which can influence the process of learning in general,
and language learning/acquisition in particular
(Izadi, 2012)
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14. Findings on other researcher’s study
The findings of his study showed that the more
proficient listeners used more planning strategies than
the less proficient listeners and that the more proficient
listeners were more attentive than the less proficient
listeners.
(Liu, 2008)
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15. Findings on other researcher’s study
The study showed that the more proficient listeners
employed meta-cognitive strategies more frequently
than the less proficient listeners, and the variations in
this type of strategy use had a statistically significant
relation across the listening ability.
(Vandergrift, 2007)
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24. Data Analysis
Q3
Q2
Q1
Is there any significant
relationship between
listening strategies and
anxiety and
English anxiety?
listeningperformance?
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Pearson
-Correlation
