Improving non-English majors＇ listening comprehension through strategy training

0 IntroductionListening is ani mportant part inthe secondlanguage learning process.It occupies priorityinlearn-ing a foreign language.As College English Curriculum Requirements[1]says:the objective of collegeEnglishis to develop students’ability to use English in an all-round way,especially in listening andspeaking.However,listening comprehension has long been a major problemfor themespeciallyfor Chi-nese college students who have beentaught inthe grammar-translation way all the waytothe u…

Improving non-English major''''s listening comprehension through strategy training

Listening is an important part in the second language learning process,so how to improve students' listening comprehension especially for non-English majors becomes a main concern to teachers.For this purpose,a targeted listening strategy training was conducted in listening classes.Test results manifest that sixty participants get more or less improvement in their listening comprehension after receiving a strategy training every two hours over ten weeks.Low and middle achievers make relatively more progress than high-achievers.Interviews also indicate that high achievers use top-down strategies more than low achievers in listening process,while low achievers employ more bottom-up strategies than high achievers.This indicates that effective strategy training in listening class could enhance students' listening performance.It is hoped that this study could give some insights to the future listening teaching.