Investigating the Use of Cognitive Inferencing Listening Strategies to Learn Vocabulary The Case of Third Year Students in the Department of English at MMUTO.
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Date
2016
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university Mouloud Mammeri of Tizi-Ouzou
Abstract
The present research is concerned with the investigation of the English language
learners’ use of cognitive inferencing listening strategies to improve vocabulary learning.
Third year students, option: Linguistics and ESP at Mouloud Mammeri University have been
taken as a case for this study. It aims at investigating whether the inferencing listening
strategies are used by third year students to learn vocabulary. This research relies on
Vandergrift’s taxonomy (1997) of listening strategies. This study, in fact, is based on mixed
method research. It combines both quantitative and qualitative methods. Therefore, two
different research instruments are used. A questionnaire is distributed to fifty five students
and an interview is conducted with three teachers of the listening module. SPSS was used for
statistical data analysis and a qualitative content analysis theory is adopted to interpret and
explain the results of the interview. The results revealed that third year students view listening
as an interesting component of foreign language learning. Also, it is concluded that students
are somehow aware of the implementation of the cognitive inferencing listening strategies to
improve the learning process as well as the acquisition and the storage of the lexical items.
Furthermore, the findings indicate that students tend to employ some strategies and neglect
others. The paralinguistic inferencing strategies and linguistic inferencing strategies are
given more importance than the voice inferencing, extra-linguistic inferencing and
inferencing between- parts strategies.
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65p.:ill;30cm.(+cd)
Keywords
Listening, Listening comprehension, Listening strategies, Inferencing Strategies.
Citation
Langage et Communication.