| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣科技大學 === 應用外語系 === 99 === This study aims to investigate the effect of listening anxiety on EFL listeners’ comprehension and vocabulary performance. Two hundred and forty- eight eighth- grade junior high school students participated in this study. The participants first took an elementary GEPT listening test and a listening vocabulary test. Next, a questionnaire was administrated to examine their levels of listening anxiety as well as explore their sources and solutions to that anxiety. According to the participants’ responses to the foreign language listening anxiety scale, they were classified into high- and low- anxiety groups. Lastly, a semi-structured interview was conducted to acquire more information from six high- and six low- anxiety students. Results indicated that there were significant differences between high- and low-anxiety listeners’ performances on both listening comprehension and vocabulary tests. Also, vocabulary knowledge was significantly correlated with listening comprehension. Overall, the study not only provides empirical evidence that listening anxiety probably has a debilitating effect on listening comprehension and knowledge of listening vocabulary, but also presents the EFL junior high school students’ possible sources and solutions to listening anxiety.
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