英语专业学生如何培养元认知策略提高听力理解水平

How May An English Major Develop His Listening Comprehension Through Metacognitive  Strategy Training?

Abstract: As the word “metacognition” becomes one of the hottest words in language learning, more and more researches find out that metacognition plays a critical role in successful learning. Metacognition enables students to be successful learners. Therefore, it is important to know how metacognition affects listening ability and how one can be trained to enhance listening comprehension. The essay attempts to find out the relationship between metacognition and listening ability; to prove strategy training as an effective way to enhance listening comprehension; and to put forward some suggestions to help students overcome listening obstacles. The first part deals with a survey involving the second-year English majors of the university, to find out the answers to the following questions: (1) Can the training of metacognitive strategies improve the students’ listening comprehension? (2) Can the training of metacognitive strategies enhance the students’ awareness? (3) Does the training of metacognitive strategies have the same effect on successful listeners and unsuccessful listeners? The second part offers some suggestions on training of metacognitive strategy i.e. on how to improve listening ability as English majors.

Key Words: metacognitive strategies；listening comprehension；English majors

英语专业学生如何培养元认知策略提高听力理解水平

摘  要：在语言习得中，元认知这个词变得越来越热门。许多研究表明，良好运用元认知策略对于成为成功的外语学习者有着巨大的建设作用。因此，了解元认知如何影响听力理解水平就变得极其重要。本文致力于寻找元认知与听力理解能力的关系，试图证明元认知策略对提高听力理解水平有积极意义，并提出一些扫除听力障碍的方法。文章第一部分是关于大学二年级英语专业学生元认知策略的运用调查，主要回答以下三个问题：1．通过元认知策略的培养能否提高听力理解能力？2．通过元认知策略的培养能否提高学生策略意识？3．元认知策略的培养对成功学生和不成功学生是否有相同的效果？文章第二部分提出了一些关于如何培养元认知策略来提高听力理解能力的方法和建议。

关键词：元认知策略；  听力理解； 英语专业学生