The influence of Ambiguity Tolerance on Listening Comprehension

Zhou Ying · Jiefangjun Waiyu Xueyuan xuebao · 2000

Based on the statistical results of an experiment, this study investigates how ambiguity tolerance affects Chinese learners' listening comprehension of English. It is found that subjects with high ambiguity tolerance tend to perform significantly better in the overall listening skill and the sub-skills of listening for retrospective tasks, inference and main ideas than subjects with low ambiguity tolerance.

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