Abstract

As is known to all, language is the bridge to the human civilization. And the skill of listening occupies an important position in people’s daily communication. During the language learning process, the general law has been formed that listening comes before saying and understanding comes before expressing. While we are learning English, listening, speaking, reading and writing are the four essential skills. Among the four, listening ranks the first, thus, the importance of which is obviously extraordinary. Actually, there are many subjective and objective factors affecting the listening quality in the teaching activities. However, due to the particularity of listening comprehension itself, the affective factors have particular influence on it. Taking Krashen’s Affective Filter Hypothesis as the theoretical basis, with the integration of the practice of students’ listening study, this thesis mainly illustrates the influence of affective factors on listening comprehension. Moreover, this thesis explores some enlightenment on English listening teaching and learning according to Krashen’s Affective Filter Hypothesis.

Key words: the Affective Filter Hypothesis; English listening comprehension; teaching and learning enlightenment

Contents

Abstract

摘要

1. Introduction-1

2. Literature Review-2

3. Introduction to Affective Filter Hypothesis-3

3.1 Definition of Affective Filter Hypothesis-3

3.2 Principle of Affective Filter Hypothesis-4

4. Importance of Affective Factors in English Listening-5

4.1 Particularity of English listening comprehension-5

4.2 Actuality of English listening class-6

4.3 Impact of affective factors on English listening comprehension-6

5. Enlightenment of Affective Filter Hypothesis on English Listening Teaching and Learning-9

5.1 Enlightenment from the perspective of teachers-9

5.2 Enlightenment from the perspective of learners-12

6. Conclusion-14

Works Cited-15