The Impact of Pre-listening Activities on Predictions in English Listening Comprehension

The study intends to find out the impact of pre-listening activities on predictions in English listening comprehension.Based on the analysis of the verbal reports of the 8 subjects, listeners facilitated with the pre-listening activities were able to have a more detailed and complete predictions of the text content and their evaluation of their own listening comprehension showed more consistency with the predictions. Both vocabulary and background knowledge provided in the pre-listening activities were significant in the process. Whereas, listeners lacking the pre-listening activities could have some misleading predictions of the text content which were beyond the original listening texts.