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On Vocational Students’ Listening Obstacles and Strategies Abstract：English listening is one of the most important but the most difficult parts in English teaching. It is not only the main way of acquiring language information , but the base of improving other skills. However, during the College English teaching and learning process, teaching of listening has been the difficult point, troubling teachers and students, So, improving students’ listening skill is the current problem to be solved by the teachers. In this article, based on my observations, questionnaires and interviews in classes for many years, I found out some barriers of English listening existing among my students. Therefore, I put forward some listening teaching strategies and methods to improve College students? listening skill. Key words：vocational students；listening；obstacles；strategies 中图分类号：H319 文献标识码： A 文章编号：1672-1578（2013)02-0003-03 1 Introduction It is believed that listening, speaking, reading, and writing are four basic skills in language teaching and learning. Sequentially, listening is essential for developing other skills and provides a basis for language learning. Many linguists have given an extraordinary exposition about listening importance. The famous linguist Rivers（1984） has offered us a set of data in his works: In people’ daily communicative activities,45% rely on listening; only30% depend on speaking;16% come from reading and 9% rely on writing. It is obvious that listening plays the leading role in language study. 2 Research Backgrounds and obstacles Presently, owing to the characteristics of public English in our school--large capacity ，less hours and the traditional listening devices--tape recorders. the teachers take up too much time in class so that the students don’t have enough time and opportunities to get listening training, and the common procedure of English listening class is that the teacher first let the students listen to the tape , and then fin