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On Natural Speech’s Role in Chinese Students’ English Listening Comprehension

On Natural Speech?s Role in Chinese Students? English Listening Comprehension It?s a big headache for all of the English teachers to improve Chinese students? competence in listening comprehension because Chinese students always find it difficult to follow the normal-speed English. It seems there is a gap between the Chinese Students and the native speaker. The English teachers have been working hard to narrow the gap for a long time. But it is really a tough work to go ahead. But a strange phenomenon coexists: after reading the tapescripts the students will find them easier than they think. There may be different reasons to the embarrassment. For example, insufficient exposure to the language environment, lack of cultural background knowledge and listening skills, spending time doing the translation from English to Chinese during listening, the different expression and custom between the two language are all responsible to their poor listening ability. But a very important reason, which is often overlooked, is natural speech. It is contained in the process of native speakers? oral speech. It is established by usage in English. It consisits of several aspects which affect the listening comprehension. The first aspect is the weak forms. As we know the same Chinese character can be pronounced in strong form and weak form in different situation. The most grammatical, form words have what is called one or more weak forms when they are unaccented as is usual and a strong form only when they are accented(in special situations or when said in isolation). The weak forms appear more often than the strong forms and thus it might well be said that in connected speech the weak forms are more normal than strong forms. Lots of function words such as at, of, the, to, as, and, a, his, an, but, been, for, her, we, shall, then, them are found to occur in their weak forms in over 90 percent of occurrences.(Gimson 1981:45) The strong form only can be seen in sentences to emphas