如何有效地提高中学生的英语听力能力.docVIP

【标题】如何有效地提高中学生的英语听力能力 【作者】任 静 【关键词】 【指导老师】王 露 陈 慧 【专业】英语 【正文】I．IntroductionIt is true that listening, speaking, reading, and writing are four basic skills in language teaching and learning. Developmentally, these skills are acquired in a certain sequence. Listening is essential for developing other skills and provides a basis for language learning. But it is also the most difficult one of all the learning skills for learners to master. Listening is important in middle school students’ English learning. A child first listens for a long time before he can speak, so listening plays the first and the most important role in learning a foreign language. Listening is an important means of language learning.?“It is one of the important ways in English language communication. We can see that a good listening can help to improve students’ ability of language understanding. And some statistics show that nearly 50% students regard listening comprehension as the most difficult part among all kinds of examinations.”1 We must admit that there is no short cut in our life, so as the English learning. But let’s have a look at our middle schools. What most teachers do in class is merely to play the recorder and check answers for listening exercises. So most students can hardly learn anything in class, and listening comprehension gives much headache to them. And, in many middle schools，it is true that Chinese students are not so quick as those in western countries mainly because they lack self-confidence and they are afraid of making mistakes. In addition, teachers are quite used to the old teaching methods, which lay more emphasis on grammar. In order to make themselves understood by all the students, some teachers would explain the grammar rules or even the texts in Chinese rather than in English in class. Thus, students get fewer opportunities to improve their listening skills. Hence, in teaching listening comprehension, it is very important for teachers to find the pro