高中生英语听力困难主要因素初析.docVIP

高中生英语听力困难主要因素初析 　　Abstract：Listening is crucial to English learning.Before we manage to find out practical solutions to improving the listening ability of high school students, we should first try to find out the problems inside.This paper is based on questionnaires,trying to display the deficiency in students’listening comprehension and reveal some major problems concerned. 　　听力在英语学习中起着至关重要的作用。在提出具体解决方案之前，我们必须先认识高中生英语听力困难这一现状并找出其存在的问题。本文通过问卷调查的方式，对当代高中学生的英语听力水平进行了调查，找到了其听力学习中存在的主要问题。 　　Key Words: deficiency in English listening, major problems concerned 　　 　　Listening plays a crucial role in English learning. The ability to listen to understand influences the command of the language. Among the four basic language skills, “Listening is the first of the language skills that most children develop and serves as the foundation for subsequent languages arts skills” (Linebarger, 2001). 　　As for high school students, listening is the first part of their test paper and usually covers 20% of the total score.However, many students cannot handle it very well. 　　In order to know high school students’ general attitudes towards listening and the problems lying in their learning courses, a survey was conducted in three different levels of high schools. The 108 targeted students are from three high schools in Shanghai: a nationally famous school A, a district key school B, and school C well-known for English teaching and learning. Of the 108 students, 33 (30.56%) are from school A and 37 (34.26%) from school B and they are all seniors. The rest of the 38 (35.18%) are juniors from school C. They will share with us their feelings about English listening improvement and their efforts to improve listening by doing a questionnaire. 　　The questionnaire reveals that up to 80 students (74.1%) are not satisfied with their listening ability, saying that they have got poor marks in listening examinations and have difficulty in communications due to poor listening ability (See table 1