| Genre is a recognizable communicative event characterized by a set of communicative purpose identified and mutually understood by members of the professional of academic community in which it regularly occurs. It is a highly structured and conventionalized communicative event. Genre affects the comprehension of the discourses, which include English majors'listening comprehension texts. The listening genres for TEM4 comprise three kinds: conversation, lecture, News broadcast. During the listening comprehension process, not only the linguistic cues but also nonlinguistic knowledge of listener should be used as clues, when the listener concentrates on an active process of listening for meanings. The listener could combine the new information with his previous knowledge and experience to reach full comprehension of what has been heard. Listening anxiety means that the fear of receiving messages is related to low confidence in processing abilities and low psychological self-approval and that the nature of receiver apprehension is different from that of fear related to sending information. Listening anxiety consists of three interrelated antecedents: primary anxiety, secondary anxiety and information processing anxiety. There are several sources of listening anxiety: listening materials presentation means, listening materials'characteristics, language proficiency and listening ability, students'self-confidence, and the strength of the evaluation and feedback from the teacher in the classroom and so forth. The survey of the 118 sophomore English majors at Hunan Institute of Science and Technology with the listening comprehension test and ELAS results in the data analysis which shows that there is a low negative correlation between genres and listening anxiety. It implies that language teachers could help the students reducing their listening anxiety through the genre-based approach for the improving of the proficiency and efficiency of listening comprehension. |
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