A Correlative Study On Metacognition And Its Strategy In Overseas Students' Listening Comprehension

In the past few years the career teaching Chinese as a second language has reached great progress. Listening skill as an important language skill is receiving more and more attention. How to improve overseas students' listening comprehension has become one of the hottest topics in the field of language researching and teaching. This thesis reports a study of the effect of metacognition, learning strategy and theories concerns listening comprehension, using a questionnaire to analyze practice of applying metacognition and metacognitive strategy by overseas students in Chengdu and Korea. The relation between metacognition, metacognitive strategy and students'academic performance,gender,nationality also needs to be analyzed. 180 questionnaires were handed out, 150 of which were got back. Among all the overseas students, there are 80 males and 70 females, 124 of which are from eastern countries and 26 form western countries, 83 of which have reached preliminary Chinese level and 61 advantage level. The questionnaire is mainly designed by author while consulting materials such as Oxford's Strategy Inventory for Language Learning and Wen Qiufang's On English learning strategy etc. SPSS12.0 is used to analyze statistics, five open questions are attached to the questionnaire and all presentation will be useful to the analysis.It is found that, though overseas students still need to improve their understanding of metacognition, they can apply it consciously or unconsciously. There is noticeable difference in applying metacognitive knowledge and metacognitive strategy between preliminary learner and advantage learner, the latter uses planning, monitoring and evaluating more often. Gender exerts little influence on metacognitive strategy, but we can anticipate that female is superior to male. Overseas students from western countries use more metacognitive knowledge and metacognitive strategy than students from eastern countries, but we need further confirmation regards of small sample.This thesis can be divided into five parts: Chapter one is introduction that mainly elaborates on the reason for choosing this topic and the fruits gained by others. Chapter two is the presentation of concepts concerned. Chapter is methodology, which explains the tool and object of the research. Chapter four is statistics analysis by SPSS. Chapter five is conclusion and discussion, which put forward some suggestions for improvement.