本研究探討英語低成就大學生在考英聽時面臨的困難，共有227位來自台北某大學非英文系的大一學生參加此研究。參與者在課堂上填寫英語學習背景、聽力策略、和聽力困難問卷。採用敘述統計、因子分析、及多元回歸分析來分析資料。研究發現，缺乏諺語、成語、和詞彙是造成參與者無法了解聽文的最主要原因。參與者應用10個聽力策略，有些策略用較多，有些用的較少。只有兩個聽力策略的應用與困難度呈現負相關。研究結果建議增加字彙知識、多聽不同主題的聽文和不同的英語腔調，以及應用不同的聽力策略。
The paper talks about the listening difficulties the low-achieving university students encounter while taking a listening comprehension test. The study involved 227 non-English-major freshmen enrolled in English Lab Classes from a university in Taipei. The participants completed the Questionnaire on English Learning Background, Listening Strategies, and Listening Difficulties during class. Descriptive statistics, factor analyses, and multiple regression analysis were used to analyze the data. The findings reveal that lack of proverbs, idioms, and vocabulary are the major problems for the participants to understand the listening text. The participants apply all the ten listening strategies, with some of them receiving more frequent uses than the others. Only two strategies have the negative relationship with their difficulties. Suggestions include increase of vocabulary knowledge, exposure to multiple fields in listening topics and different accents, and application of listening strategies.
