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An Empirical Study on Listening Teaching of Senior High School Through Authentic Movies

Author: ZhuZuo
Tutor: LiuXueHui
School: Nanjing Normal University
Course: Subject Teaching
Keywords: Authentic English movies listening of Senior High School an empirical study
CLC: G633.41
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2011
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Abstract


It is noteworthy that the traditional listening teaching has been conducted in a sole and boring teaching mode: explaining new words, listening to the tapes, doing the exercises and checking the answers. It is widely acknowledged that this approach hasn’t led to desirable achievement in students’listening development. With the development of modernization of education, teaching equipments and devices are changing now. The process of education modernization has greatly advanced the pace of the reformation of English teaching. How to teach listening effectively is an important subject for many English teachers. So, many language teachers try to use different methods to improve students’listening ability, of which English movie is regarded as an effective way of achieving that goal. Many language teachers try to use authentic videos to improve students’listening ability. This thesis is a research on one semester’s study of the effects of teaching listening via authentic videos.This study explores the feasibility and effectiveness of teaching listening using original English videos. In order to justify the application of this method from theoretical foundation, the author gives a brief introduction to some related theories: Constructivism theory, the Input Hypothesis of Krashen and Affective Hypothesis, Schema theory and Motivation theory. Then, this paper summarizes the characteristics of traditional listening method and the advantages of movies watching as the main way of listening input in the class. In order to study the feasibility and effectiveness of teaching listening with authentic videos, the author made a pilot study from Sept. 2010. to Jan.2011. The experiment done among the students of Senior One in No.11 Middle School of Ma’an Shan in An Hui Province lasted one term. Two groups of 70 students were chosen as subjects of the study,35 in the experimental group and 35 in the control group. The experimental group had the listening class employing videos as the main vehicle of language materials, while the control group used the traditional textbook-based language materials. Due to the advantages of videos as the carrier of language materials, various activities for the experimental group were designed to get students involved in the listening process. For the control group, the language learning activities listed in the textbook were conducted in the classroom. The data of these tests were processed by the software SPSS13.0. The statistical result from the experiment does not seem to support the experimental hypothesis:there is no significant difference between the experimental group and control group in listening comprehension. The failure may be attributed to insufficient experimental time and improper difficulty of the test material. After analyzing the results from the experimental study, the author has had deep reflection, which leads to the finding of some notable problems in the experiment. After carefully analyzing those problems found there, we put forwards some proposals on how to improve and solve those problems. Our study will benefit those who will employ movie watching as the main way of teaching listening classes in the future. Suggestions are made from the perspectives that more subjects should be involved in the further study and scientific instructional procedure should be designed for the practical listening teaching.

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