A number of people have frequently made the point that the total time and individual engage in communication; approximately 9% of which is devoted to writing, 16%to reading, 30%to speaking, and 45%to listening. It is therefore undoubtedly the case that listening should be given more attention in language teaching. But in the foreign language’s learning process, the people generally feel that it is difficult to foster and improve one’s listening ability. But the author thinks that these are closely relative to the complication of listening itself, the language knowledge and skill of the listeners and Chinese traditional teaching model. But from the investigation the author can see that listeners’ difficulties mainly present in following aspects: 1). The listener cannot follow the speed of the speakers, 2). The listeners cannot get the main ideas of the material, 3). The listeners are lack of certain memory techniques, 4). The listener’s understanding is beyond the material. Therefore take this as the topic to make to solve these problems, the author proposes some listening skills in pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, background knowledge, note and so on, and the goal is to provide some methods of English listening teaching for English teachers and to help the listeners to improve their listening comprehension.
Abstract.................................................................I
Key Words................................................................I
摘要.....................................................................1
关键词...................................................................1
Introduction.............................................................1
I. Listening Comprehension Process.......................................3
A.The Stage of the Language’s Receiving.................................3
B.The Stage of Comprehension.............................................4
C.The Stage of General Cognition ........................................4
II. Characteristics of the Listening Process.............................5
A. Spontaneity...........................................................5
B. Context...............................................................5
C. Visual Clues..........................................................6
D. Listener’s Response..................................................6
E. Speaker’s Adjustment.................................................6
III. Common Listening Barriersv..........................................6
A. Low Speed.............................................................6
B. Shortage of Imagination and Ability...................................7
C. Not Seizing the Main Points...........................................7
D. Lack of Background Information........................................7
E. Lack of Coherent Remembering Ability..................................7
Ⅳ. The Ways to Improve College English Listening........................8
A. Pronunciation.......................................................8
B. Grammar...............................................................9
C. Vocabulary............................................................10
D. Background Knowledge..................................................11
E. Notes.................................................................12
F. Multi-media...........................................................13
(1). Issues about Traditional Listening Educational Model................13
(2). The Use of Modern Teaching Equipment................................13
G. Practice............................................................14
Conclusion...............................................................15
Acknowledgements.........................................................16
Bibliography.............................................................17
