An Investigation on English Listening Strategies Use of English Majors(英语论文).doc

An Investigation on English Listening Strategies Use of English Majors Abstract: This paper employed English Learning Strategies Road to Success to make a survey on listening strategies of English majors from college of foreign languages in Hainan Normal University. The findings of the study indicate that the learning strategies used most frequently by English majors are effective inferences’ taking strategies, effective notes’ taking strategies and pronunciation and Intonation’s helping strategies. Key words: listening strategy; English majors; strategies 1. Introduction The survey aims at the listening strategies of English majors. Among listening, speaking, reading, writing skills, many students complain that listening is the most different one, even for English majors. Thus, this formulated the writer to do the survey to learn the strategies use of them. With related previous studies as guidance, the writer conducted a survey on the English listening strategies, expecting to find out the following problems: What is the frequency of listening strategies used by English majors? 2) What are the sparing listening strategies used by English majors? 2.1 Subjects The participants of this study were 15 English majors from college of foreign languages in Hainan Normal University. Table 1: The Subjects 2.2 Instrument and Procedure This survey is to find out the English listening situation of English majors. There are 20 items in the questionnaire which uses a 5-point scale (1=never to 5=always). The questionnaire was discussed by 7 group members. And then they chose 20 important questions to survey 15 English majors. The survey and the requirements were required by the group members in the classroom. Students were assured that they could not be identified through their questionnaire forms, so they could offer truer information without worry. Therefore the data collected were more reliable. Having collected