| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立屏東商業技術學院 === 應用英語系(所) === 100 === Listening is the most common and important language skill people use in their daily lives. Therefore, the Ministry of Education (MOE) launched an English teaching program that ensures students in the elementary school from third grade and above in Taiwan receive English lessons and develop their English language listening and speaking skills. However, whether students can consistently maintain or further develop their listening skills is doubtful when the English curriculum focuses on reading and writing skills, and begins incorporating grammar at junior high school level. Therefore, the researcher conducted an experiment comprising 2 tests on liquid consonants for junior high school students to evaluate their listening comprehension. For this experiment, the researcher recruited 180 junior high school students as participants. A pre-test, a post-test, and a questionnaire were administered. Between the pre-test and post-test, vocabulary instruction was taught to determine whether junior high school students' listening comprehension skills would be gained as a result of repeated vocabulary instruction. The results indicated that most students achieved better scores of listening comprehension in the post-test than those in the pre-test. Additionally, students who were classified into the low achievers group demonstrated significant improvement in their listening comprehension in the post-test. Based on the result of the questionnaire, students who did not have positive attitudes regarding English listening lessons tended to fear the listening activities. On the other hand, students thought that they would have positive attitudes if they could learn listening strategies and they also thought that they might improve their confidence and reduce their anxiety of listening through the instruction of listening strategies. Based on the aforementioned findings, some pedagogical implications were illustrated.
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