外语焦虑感与英语听力理解的相关研究

论文摘要

情感因素在语言学习中发挥着重要作用。外语焦虑感是外语学习中一种重要的情感因素。尽管有关外语焦虑感的研究比较丰富,但针对不同性质以及不同程度的焦虑与英语听力理解的相关研究较少。本文旨在中国国内自然英语课堂中,研究外语焦虑感与英语听力理解成绩的相关关系。具体研究问题主要包括:非英语专业学生在英语听力中是否存在外语焦虑感,促进性焦虑和抑制性焦虑,是否与英语听力成绩之间存在相关关系;高、中、低三等程度焦虑与英语听力理解成绩之间的相关性如何,不同焦虑水平组听力成绩有无差异;不同听力水平的学生是否存在不同程度的焦虑,焦虑程度有无差异;男女学生在焦虑水平上有无差异。本文采用了国内外信度效度系数较高的焦虑量表测试被试的焦虑程度;使用皮尔逊相关分析不同程度和性质的焦虑与听力理解的相关性;使用单因素方差分析检测高、中、低度焦虑者听力成绩的差异水平以及不同听力水平的学生在焦虑程度上的差异;采用T检验检测焦虑程度的性别差异。研究结果表明:英语听力与外语焦虑感呈负相关;焦虑程度越高,相关性越显著,高焦虑组学生的英语听力成绩与低中焦虑组存在显著差异;不同听力水平的学生在焦虑水平上存在差异;存在促进性焦虑和抑制性焦虑;男女学生在焦虑程度上没有差异。本研究说明了外语焦虑感仍是影响英语听力学习的重要因素之一。在大学英语教学中,教师应注重学生个人差异,通过创造和谐课堂环境、输入背景知识等策略帮助学生降低英语听力中的外语焦虑感。

论文目录

• 摘要
• ABSTRACT
• Chapter One Introduction
• 1.1 Background of the present study
• 1.2 Significance of the present study
• 1.3 Structure of the dissertation
• Chapter Two Literature Review
• 2.1 Definitions of anxiety
• 2.2 Foreign language anxiety
• 2.3 Classification of anxiety
• 2.3.1 Trait anxiety and state anxiety
• 2.3.2 Situation-specific anxiety
• 2.3.3 Debilitative anxiety and facilitative anxiety
• 2.4 Measurement of anxiety
• 2.5 Anxiety and foreign language learning
• 2.5.1 Researches on foreign language anxiety
• 2.5.2 Studies on foreign language anxiety in English listening comprehension in China
• 2.5.3 Studies on facilitative anxiety and debilitative anxiety in English listening comprehension
• 2.6 Summary
• Chapter Three Methodology
• 3.1 The hypotheses of this study
• 3.2 Methods
• 3.2.1 Subjects
• 3.2.2 Instruments
• 3.3 Procedure
• 3.4 Summary
• Chapter Four Results and discussion
• 4.1 Overview of the correlation and description of foreign language anxiety and English listening performance
• 4.1.1 Correlation between anxiety and listening test scores
• 4.1.2 Descriptive statistics of anxiety and listening test scores
• 4.2 English listening performance and groups with different anxiety levels
• 4.2.1 Group with low anxiety level
• 4.2.2 Group with middle anxiety level
• 4.2.3 Group with high anxiety level
• 4.2.4 Comparison and discussion of these three groups with different levels of anxiety
• 4.3 Foreign language anxiety and groups with different levels of listening proficiency
• 4.3.1 Division of the groups with low, middle and high levels of listening proficiency
• 4.3.2 The descriptive statistics of the three groups
• 4.3.3 Different correlations in these three groups
• 4.3.4 Multiple comparisons of different kinds of anxiety among three groups with different levels of English listening proficiency
• 4.4 Foreign language anxiety and gender
• 4.5 Further discussion
• 4.6 Summary
• Chapter Five Conclusion
• 5.1 Major findings of this study
• 5.2 Implications of the study
• 5.3 Limitations and suggestions for further study
• Acknowledgements
• References
• Appendix A
• Appendix B
• Appendix C
• Appendix D