Study on the Non-linguistic Factors Influencing Students’ Listening Comprehension

Listening comprehension can be affected by the linguistic factors and non-linguistic factors. However, in the process of English learning, middle school students tend to focus only on the effects of the linguistic factors and ignore the nonlinguistic factors, which affect their improvement of listening comprehension of middle school students and results in the phenomenon of deaf English. A survey of 110 middle school students has been conducted in No.9 Middle School in Linfen city. Through the analysis of the questionnaire data, this paper points out the non-linguistic factors influencing middle school students’ listening comprehension and find out corresponding teaching strategies for improving middle school students’ listening comprehension, so as to further improve the middle school English teaching.