A Study of Effective Strategy Training for Low Achievers in College English Listening Teaching

Abstract

Effective strategy is one of the most important aspects of learning strategies. Language high achievers and language low achievers vary considerably in effective strategy use. This study carried out an effective strategy training session and it was conducted with the 126 low achievers (61 of them belonging to the experimental group and 65 of them belonging to the control group) by applying a newly constructed training model. The results indicate that the training can greatly enhance both effective strategy use and language proficiency and that the effective strategy has great impact on the language low achievers and the training is effective.