Abstract:Under the influence of the trend of internationalization in our country, school education also pay more and more attention to English education. Listening is the key part of English study, but due to its own characteristics, many English learners feel it’s difficult to learn well. Also, the result of domestic English teaching is not very optimistic. As we all known, high school period is key period for domestic education, senior grade one as a cohesion for students from junior high school to senio high school period is a crucial period. In addition, learning strategies play an important role in the process of language learning and reasonable use of learning strategies can enhance students’ learning ability and confidence. Therefore, this paper hope to find some methods to help senior English listening teaching by the investigation and analysis of findings.

This paper makes a questionnaire survey in148 students under the instruction of the theory of learning strategy, and analyze their listening grades. Then it find that the most frequently used strategies employed by students is met cognitive strategy, then is cognitive strategy and the last is affective strategy，the most frequently used strategy employed by high-score students is cognitive strategy, then is met cognitive strategy and the last is affective strategy，and the frequency of using listening strategies in high- score group is much higher than low-score group’s.

In the end, according to the result of survey, this paper provides some suggestions for teaching and learning of English for first grades students of senior high school.

 Key words English of Grade One  Listening Strategies  Listening score

Content

摘要：

Abstract:

1 Introduction-5

1.1 Research Background-5

1.2 Purposes and Significance of the study-6

2 Literature review-7

2.1 Definitions and classifications of L2 listening strategies-7

2.1.1 The definition of English learning strategies-7

2.1.2 The classification of English listening strategies-7

2.2 Researches on listening strategies at home and abroad-8

2.2.1 The domestic research of English listening strategies-8

2.2.2 The study of listening strategy abroad-8

3 Research Methodology-9

3.1 Research questions-9

3.2 Participants-10

3.3 Instruments-10

3.3.1 Listening strategy questionnaire-10

3.3.2 English listening proficiency test-10

3.4 Data collection and analysis-11

4 Results and Discussion-11

4.1 Results and Discussion on Research question one-11

4.2 Results and Discussion on Research question two-12

5 Conclusion-13

5.1 Major Findings--13

5.2 Implications of English listening strategy in Senior High Schools-13

5.2.1 Some Suggestions on the Teaching of Listening-13

5.2.2 Some Suggestions on the Learning of Listening for students-17

5.3 Limitations and Suggestions for Further Study--18

 Bibliography-20

 Appendix-21

 Acknowledgements-23