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1、非英语专业高职高专生听力材料和听力焦虑的相关性分析ChapterOneIntroduction1.1MotivationandRationaleoftheResearchLearnersarerequiredtolistentoheterogeneouslisteningmaterialsiftheyintendtoachieveeffectiveandefficientcommunicationinEnglishunderavarietyofcontexts.Nevertheless,comprehensibi
2、lityofdifferentlisteningmaterialsmaynotbeequaltoeverylistenereventhoughtheyidentifyeverywordinthetext.Studiesdemonstratethatforeignlanguagelearnersfinditdifficulttocomprehendacademiclecturesandfailtocatchthemainpointsofthelecturesinspiteoftheirsufficientlangu
3、ageproficiency.(Allison&Tauroza,1995;Hyon,1997;Thompson,1994;Young,1994).Thisismainlybecauselearners'focalpointistodecodethespeech,wordbyword,ratherthanlocatethemainideabyrecognizingthetransitionsbetweenideasandgraspingtheentirestructuralfeatureofthegivenmate
4、rials.Largeamountsofevidenceindicatethatbackgroundknowledgeofthecontentandthatofthetextstyleshouldbeequallyessentialtolearnersincomprehendingthetext.Inotherwords,iflisteningmaterialsareinthesamegenres,similarityinform,styleandstructure,theymayserveastheequals
5、ocialpurposesandinformationorganizationinthesamefamats.Li(2005)showsEnglishmajorsobtainthemarksfromthehighestinconversation,thenthelecturetothelowestinnewsbroadcastingduringTEM4'slisteningcomprehensionbyaquantitativeanalysisandalsoprovesthatEnglishmajorsperfo
6、rmdifferentlyamongconversation,lecture,news(Li,2005:102:63).So,familiaritywiththegenericcharacteristicsofthe一listeningmaterialswillhelplistenersunderstandtheentirestructureofthetext.Andrecentyearswitnessthatanincreasingnumberofresearchersandeducatorshavegiven
7、learnerfactors,particularlyaffectivefactorstheirduebecauselearnersare"physicallycognitiveandprimarilyemotionalbeings"(Rogers,1976,citedbyBrown,1994).Amongalltheresearchesofaffectivevariables,anxietyhasgainedmore attention,especiallyforeignlanguageanxiety.Quit
8、eanumberofresearcheshaveprovedforeignlanguageanxietyinfluencesindividualachievementandsuccessgreatly(Spielberger,1966;Chastain,1975;Horwitz.1986:Krashen.1982;MacintyreGardner,1991a).Never