| Acknowledgements | 第1-4页 |
| Abstract | 第4-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-9页 |
| Table of Contents | 第9-11页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第11-14页 |
| ·General description of the study | 第11页 |
| ·Motivations for the study | 第11-12页 |
| ·Significance of the study | 第12-13页 |
| ·Overall structure of the thesis | 第13-14页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第14-27页 |
| ·Definition of language listening comprehension | 第14-15页 |
| ·Theoretical foundation of this study | 第15-18页 |
| ·Methodological foundation of this study | 第18-21页 |
| ·Previous studies on L2 listening comprehension difficulties abroad and in China | 第21-27页 |
| ·Previous studies on L2 listening comprehension difficulties abroad | 第21-23页 |
| ·Previous studies on L2 listening comprehension difficulties in China | 第23-25页 |
| ·Comments on the previous studies on L2 listening comprehension difficulties | 第25-27页 |
| Chapter Three Methodology | 第27-33页 |
| ·Research questions | 第27页 |
| ·Research design | 第27-32页 |
| ·Subjects | 第27-28页 |
| ·Background information of the subjects | 第27-28页 |
| ·Reasons for subject selection | 第28页 |
| ·Instrument | 第28-30页 |
| ·Data collection | 第30-31页 |
| ·Data analysis | 第31-32页 |
| ·Ethical issues | 第32-33页 |
| Chapter Four Results and Discussion | 第33-50页 |
| ·Difficulties with CET-4 listening comprehension for English majors at junior college in the phase of perception | 第33-38页 |
| ·Difficulties in recognizing sounds of familiar words or expressions | 第33-37页 |
| ·Inability to perceive familiar multi-syllable words or expressions | 第33-34页 |
| ·Inability to hear some familiar words with weak forms or unstressed syllables | 第34-36页 |
| ·Inability to perceive numerals | 第36页 |
| ·Inability to be accustomed to the speaker's peculiar accent | 第36-37页 |
| ·Difficulties in catching the beginning sounds of the next sentence | 第37-38页 |
| ·Difficulties with CET-4 listening comprehension for English majors at junior college in the phase of parsing | 第38-46页 |
| ·Difficulties in analyzing the syntactic structure | 第38-43页 |
| ·Inability to recognize a peculiar phrasal structure | 第38-41页 |
| ·Inability to form a sentence structure | 第41-43页 |
| ·Difficulties in developing meaning out of the syntactic structure | 第43-46页 |
| ·Inability to recognize the meaning of known words and expressions | 第43-45页 |
| ·Inability to remember what has been said | 第45-46页 |
| ·Difficulties with CET-4 listening comprehension for English majors at junior college in the phase of utilization | 第46-50页 |
| ·Difficulty in making backward inferences to understand the intended meaning | 第47-48页 |
| ·Difficulty in making forward inferences to predict the intended meaning | 第48-50页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第50-54页 |
| ·Major findings | 第50-51页 |
| ·Implications | 第51-52页 |
| ·Limitations of the study | 第52-53页 |
| ·Suggestions for future research | 第53-54页 |
| References | 第54-59页 |
| Appendix Transcript of Listening Materials | 第59-67页 |
