How to Improve Middle School Students’ Listening Ability.docVIP

How to Improve Middle School Students’ Listening Ability 　　Abstract:This paper discusses English listening problems in Middle School. The author analyzes the reasons why listening is more difficult than others, telling the importance and the current situations of teaching English listening, and analyzing the reason why English listening is very poor in a middle school. Then the author gives some advice. At the end of the paper, the author emphasises the importance of listening, and hopes all the teachers pay attention to English listening. Key words: English listening；listening ways；predicting；practising 中图分类号：G632.0 文献标识码：A 文章编号：1992-7711(2013)24-0096 I. Introduction It is well known that “The aim of English teaching in a middle school is to make the students accept complete training including listening, speaking, reading and writing. Gain the basic knowledge of English and the capability of using English for the purpose of communication.” The right training order of the four skills should be listening is ahead of speaking, speaking ahead of reading, reading ahead of writing, The students of junior middle schools are lively, like to speak and act, eager to get knowledge and imitative, and they are not afraid of speaking wrongly. So most of them can take an active part in the training , especially in the training of listening and speaking. The teachers should insist on training the student?s listening and speaking according to these characteristics, pay more attention to their pronunciation and intonation, guide them to practice listening all the time, to master and use English correctly. It can not only improve the students? learning interest but also heighten their confidence.It will surely be a good start in their later study. The development of good listening skills often has a beneficial effect on speaking and reading abilities. From the points of the above, listening precedes speaking and it provides a basic for language learning. So if the te