区切り聞きによるリスニングの指導 : 実践とその効果

抄録

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of phrasal listening practice on Japanese college students' listening comprehension. The subjects were 48 Japanese nursing college students who participated in the five sets of the phrasal listening practice. Before and after the participation, listening comprehension tests were conducted to examine the improvement in listening skills. The subjects were categorized into three groups^ the higher group (N=12), the middle group (N=23), and the lower group (N=13). The results showed that significant progress between the pre-test and the post-test was observed in each group although there was no significant difference between the middle and lower group in the post-test. According to the survey by a questionnaire, 75% of the higher group and 69.2% of the lower group students found the efficacy of the phrasal listening practice while the positive response by the middle group students remained at 52.2%. These findings suggest that the phrasal listening practice could be both possible and desirable for the improvement of listening skills of Japanese college students and that further research in the appropriateness of speech rate on listening materials and the relationship between pauses and segmentation would be desirable.