On The Application Of Chunking Approach To English Listening Teaching In Secondary Vocational Schools

It can be said that listening comprehension is the most important one among the five language skills in communication. And linguists and experts believe that foreign language learning must be started from "listening". It is self-evident that overcoming the obstacle to listening comprehension is important in language learning. On the research on teaching English listening, scholars at home and abroad have made a systematic study with great success. Chunking approach (lexical approach), as a new teaching and learning approach, has drawn many experts and scholars'attention in the past ten years. Its validity in improving listening comprehension has been testified by empirical studies in different universities and middle schools, and fully confirmed by experts and scholars in English teaching field. However, it is uncertain whether chunking approach is feasible to English listening comprehension in secondary vocational schools, where students are particularly poor in English. Actually, few researches have been done about it so far. So the aim of this thesis is to demonstrate that chunking approach can be applied to English teaching in secondary vocational school.In order to test the feasibility and effectiveness of chunking approach, this thesis adopts the qualitative and quantitative approaches. It analyzes the current listening comprehension problems in secondary schools in China. And then by commenting the idea and advantages of chunking approach, it expounds the feasibility of applying it to English listening teaching in secondary vocational schools. After that the thesis introduces an experiment conducted in Class One of Numerical Control major in Longyan Nongxiao for ten weeks, and some correlated data were collected. The significant differences of the means between the pre-test and the post-test indicate that the effectiveness of chunking approach is significant. At last, it is concluded that chunking approach is practicable and meaningful to English teaching in secondary vocational schools. Towards the end of the thesis some problems are raised to be solved in the future...