A Study of the Listening Comprehension Ability of Native Speakers of English : Inquiry into a Training Method for Japanese Students
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It has long been said that listening is not a passive skill nor a receptive skill, but a creative skill. And the abilities of anticipation and memory (as prerequisite to the anticipation) are considered to be essential factors in the process of listening comprehension. However, what they are and how they work have not been investigated to the fullest extent so that the results can be utilized as a theoretical basis for the training of the listening comprehension ability of foreign language learners. The aim of this study is to explore the mechanism of the abilities of anticipation and memory and to contrive a training method for Japanese students of English. The author assumed that a fill-in-blank method could extract and cultivate the abilities most effectively. Based on the assumption, the author attempted to examine the abilities of native speakers of English by giving fill-in- blank questions and compared the test results with those of Japanese students. The results of checking exemplified what they are and how they work and suggested that in the process of listening comprehension, there seems to be a hierachical structure with various levels, a model of which could be formed. It was also made clear that more exhaustive material should be prepared in order both to investigate and to train the abilities.
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