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 ess 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 plain 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?
Subjects
The participants of this study were 15 English majors from college of foreign languages in Hainan Normal University.
Table 1: The Subjects
Instrument and Procedure
This survey is to find out the English listenin