Correlations Between Chinese College Students' Pronunciation And Their Listening Comprehension

Based on the review of bottom-up approach of listening comprehension, and an experiment carried out with 76 sophomores at Anhui Architectural University, this paper investigated the correlation between Chinese College non-English majors'pronunciation and listening. The result shows that there is a positive linear correlation between students'pronunciation and listening, with the correlation coefficient—r being 0.569. To further the study, the subjects were divided into two groups (skilled listeners and less-skilled listeners) according to their scores in the listening comprehension test. And the paper probes the phonetic factors that contribute most to their listening, and finds out that"rhythm"is the biggest obstacle for the skilled-listener group, while"phoneme"affects less-skilled students'listening most. The paper then discusses the pedagogical implications and limitations of this study, followed by some suggestion for future studies on this issue.