A Study on the Relationship of Middle School Students’ Vocabulary Breadth Knowledge and Listening Comprehension

Journal: Region - Educational Research and Reviews DOI: 10.32629/rerr.v2i3.136

Ting Yang

School of Foreign Language, China West Normal University

Abstract

This study took 37 junior students who were from an institution of Nanchong as research objects. In this study, SPSS was used for making quantitative analysis on the collected data, intending to explore the relationship of middle school students’ vocabulary breadth knowledge and listening comprehension. The results show: (1) The current vocabulary breadth level of middle school students accounted for 80.86% of the overall requirements, and their listening comprehension level reached 85.87% of the general requirements, both of which were in an upper level; (2) Students’ vocabulary breadth and listening comprehension level in different gender didn’t have a significant difference; (3) There was a significant positive correlation between middle school students’ vocabulary breadth and listening comprehension. This study has some guiding significance on the listening teaching of primary and secondary schools.

Keywords

middle school students; vocabulary knowledge; vocabulary breadth; listening comprehension

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