A Study of the Effect of Different Genres on English Learners’ Listening Comprehension 不同体裁对英语学习者的听力理解影响的问题研究.doc

A Study of the Effect of Different Genres on English Learners’ Listening Comprehension 摘要 本论文试图回答不同体裁对英语学习者的听力理解是否产生影响的问题。本研究以广州某普通高校30名英语专业本科生为实验对象，以全国高校英语专业四级2010年考试听力理解部分的三篇会话和六则新闻为听力测试材料。考查学习着对整体问题和局部问题的理解结果。考查结果表明受试能更好地捕捉会话体裁的整体信息，却能获取更多新闻体裁的局部信息。本研究认为，会话和新闻的体裁特点导致受试在整体和局部问题上的听力理解发生偏差，证实了不同体裁的确会对英语专业学生的听力理解产生影响。因此，本文建议英语教学中，教师帮助学习这熟悉各种体裁的典型特点，以便产生更好的理解结果。 关键词 英语听力理解； 体裁；听力输入； 新闻体裁；会话体裁  Abstract In order to answer the question “Does genre of the listening input affect the listening comprehension?”, the study examined participants’ performance on the global questions and local questions by taking 30 English majors from a university in Guangzhou as the participants and taking 3 conversation and 6 pieces of news broadcast extracted from the listening comprehension part of TEM-4 2010 as the listening input of the test. The result showed that participants had better performance on the global questions of conversation while they had better results in answering the local questions. Therefore, this study claimed that the distinct generic characteristics of conversation and news broadcast led to the deviation of participants’ listening comprehension on the global and local questions. That was to say, genres had effect on English major’s listening comprehension. Hence, it was suggested that in English teaching, teachers should help learners to learn more knowledge about the typical generic characteristics of different genres so that learners can comprehend different genres better. Key Words English listening comprehension; genre; listening input; news; conversation CONTENTS Abstract in Chinese Abstract in English 1 1. Introduction 1 2. Literature Review 3 2.1 The Definition of Genre 3 2.2 The Genre theory 3 2.3 Previous Research on Genre and Listening Comprehension 4 3. The Study 5 3.1 Research Questions 5 3.2 Participants 5 3.3 Instruments 6 3.4 Procedures 7 3.4.1 Pre-test 7 3.4.2 Test 8 3.5 Data Collection and Results 8 3.5.1 The test questions on TEM-4 list