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A Study of College Students’ Autonomous English Listening Ability



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YAN Yi-bo

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DOI:10.17265/1539-8072/2015.09.008

Heze University, Heze, China

Based on the data got from questionnaire in which 75 college students from Heze University participated, the present study aims to explore the current situation of college students’ autonomous listening ability, its gender difference and the correlation between autonomous listening ability and CET-4 listening achievement. The results indicate that the autonomous listening ability for college students is at the medium level with a great individual difference and there’s a vast space to be promoted. Moreover, there’s no significant gender difference in autonomous listening ability for college students and there’s significant positive correlation between autonomous listening ability and CET-4 Listening achievement, especially the dimension of Application of Strategies. Thus, a conclusion can be drawn that in English listening teaching, teachers should change their teaching model and strengthen the application of network teaching; in English listening learning, English learners should promote their ability of using strategies in English listening in order to improve their autonomous learning ability.

autonomous listening learning, gender difference, correlation