Debilitating Effects of "Listening Stress" : Focusing on the Use of Coping Strategies

• NORO Tokuji

  Hirosaki University

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• 「リスニングストレス」の理解阻害効果 : 対処方略への影響の観点から

Abstract

Listening anxiety is known as an affective factor influencing the second/foreign language listening comprehension process. However, the construct has been examined and discussed as unique to each individual learner and more or less a static learner attribute, which makes it rather difficult to examine the real-time effects of listening anxiety on cognitive processing in second/foreign language listening. The present study introduces "listening stress" as an alternative to listening anxiety and examines its debilitating effects, focusing on the use of coping strategies. A small-scale stress-inducing experiment was conducted with 9 Japanese learners of English. The results show that increased listening stress hinders the use of coping strategies, debilitating listening comprehension, especially in higher cognitive processing, such as inferencing and generalization/application of information. For future research, both quantitative and qualitative analyses of data obtained from more subjects, more control of factors within subjects, and further refinement of the instrumentation were considered to be necessary.

Journal

• ARELE: Annual Review of English Language Education in Japan

  ARELE: Annual Review of English Language Education in Japan 21 (0), 201-210, 2010

  The Japan Society of English Language Education

Details

• CRID: 1390001205823738112
• NII Article ID: 110008512410
• DOI: 10.20581/arele.21.0_201
• ISSN: 24320412
• ISSN: 13448560
• Text Lang: en
• Data Source:
  • JaLC
  • CiNii Articles
  • KAKEN
• Abstract License Flag: Disallowed