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Research on the Strategy-Based Instruction of News Broadcast Listening For English Minors in China

Abstract

News broadcast, as a kind of authentic input, are invaluable materials to improve listening proficiency for both ESL and EFL learners. However, the particular characteristics of news broadcast present a number of challenges to achieving comprehension: unfamiliar patterns of discourse, vocabulary, speech rates, syntactic structures, and a high density of factual contents, etc. In this paper, based on the Constructivism views on education, the author chooses 86 English learners in China who take English as their second major as the research subjects, carries out a strategy-based instruction to the experimental group. After the 15-week instruction, the author collects and analyses the data to examine whether the strategy-based instruction would help students improve their news listening performance.

Keywords: Authentic Input, Constructivism, News Broadcast Listening, Strategies., Strategy-Based Instructions

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Print ISSN: 2055-0820
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37745/ijelt.13

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