Anxiety in English Listening Test and Its Resolving Strategies
Abstract
Anxiety refers to an emotional state of nervousness with fear arising when an individual’s self-respect and self-confidence are thwarted or sense of failure and compunction is increased on account of not achieving his/her desired aim or smoothing away the threat of the barriers.
The thesis reports the findings of a survey on students’ anxiety in English listening test. The survey is conducted among 41 seniors from the Department of Foreign Language and Literature of Hunan Institute of Science and Technology, the purpose of which is to find out the causes for anxiety in listening test, to attempt new teaching and learning techniques in light of second language acquisition theories and teaching conditions in China, and to help the students bring into full play their language potentials in a most favorable affective state so as to gradually improve their listening skills and abilities. After the survey and analysis, the thesis states series of causes for anxiety in English listening test. Aiming at different causes, resolving strategies are proposed accordingly.
Key Words: Listening anxiety; questionnaire survey; interview; source; strategy
摘 要
焦慮是1種緊張不安，帶有恐懼感的情緒狀態,是由於個人的自信心受到打擊或者未能達到預期目標而產生的1種挫折感。而語言焦慮是語言學習過程中所特有的1種複雜心理現象，是學習者因語言學習過程的獨特性而產生的1種與課堂語言學習相關的自我意識、信仰、感情以及行為的`明顯焦慮情緒。在英語聽力學習過程中，焦慮所引發的聽力障礙是1項頗具探討價值的課題。本文從學生在英語聽力考試中普遍存在的焦慮問題這1事實出發，通過對湖南理工學院外語系大441個學生的問卷調查和採訪研究分析，提出了可能引起聽力焦慮的各種不同原因，包括聽力理解本身的特徵，聽力材料及聽力任務的特徵，社會和老師的因素以及自身的原因.探討了在中國的英語聽力教學中，老師應如何通過採用有效的教學理論和技巧讓學生在最良好的心理狀態中輕鬆面對聽力考試，逐漸提高英語聽力能力。
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