This study adopts two instruments including questionnaire and interview for a survey on listening anxiety with 147 university students as subjects. The results show that there exists a certain correlation between listening anxiety and listening proficiency. Listening anxiety and listening proficiency is significantly and negatively related. Factor analysis also shows that there are five specific factors forming the resources of listening anxiety which include nervousness in listening activities; lack of listening skill ; unfamiliarity with the background knowledge; poor English proficiency and...