Enhancing Technology College Students' English Listening Comprehension by Listening Journals

English listening plays a very important role in the language acquisition. However, most Taiwanese college students' listening comprehension is not very good due to the influence of the question types on college entrance examination. Therefore, the author tried using a mandate of English listening journal assignments to enhance technology college students' English listening comprehension. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of using English listening journals to enhance technology college students' English listening comprehension, the listening difficulties students encountered, and listening strategies they used. The subjects were four-year technology college freshmen majoring in English. Data were collected from questionnaires. Overall, the English listening journal assignments helped students enhance their English listening comprehension, especially in English listening strategies, English vocabulary, and English pronunciation.