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It is very important and difficult for the students to improve the ability of listening. The students should form the good habit of listening. The pronunciation and sentence structure should not be in Chinese style. The students should keep relaxed when they listen to some listening materials. The teachers try to create the language environment to improve the students’ability of listening. The students should draw attention to the oral reading skill and read something in their spare time about history, geography, culture of English-speaking countries. Most of the students do better in reading, writing and speaking English than in listening. The students hardly communicate in English. This is partially because of our examination system, and partially of the teaching methods. We can’t change the examination system, but we can improve our teaching methods.
1.Creating a language environment. We know the largest difference between mother language learning and foreign language learning is the environment. A child can soon learn his mother language well. He has heard a lot before he can say something and walk. Then after he is able to walk and say, he has a chance of listening to more. Before he goes to school, he has already been a good listener and speaker. But for a foreign language, they can meet it only in formal places,classes, for example, otherwise, they can hardly have a chance to meet it. So I think we should try to let the students be in a language environment.
2.Master of knowledge. Our students should work hard at English language, master a lot of English words, phrases and proverbs and remember the usage and collocation of these English words. And out of class, they should try to learn more about the customs, political systems, the backgrounds of culture sociality of English-speaking countries, the knowledge of other subjects, such as mathematics, physics, chemistry and so on. During their holidays, they should read more magazines, newspapers in order to enrich their eyesight, for example, English Weekly,China Daily, The 21st Century, World Vision, Readers and so on. It will help them better understand the listening materials. Enlarge the students’knowledge about English.
3.Master the Oral English. I think the phonetic symbol is the base. Let the students grasp the phonetic symbol. Oral reading after a radio or a teacher is a good way at the beginning.Students should do much about it.Pay attention to the oral reading skill. When they can speak English like foreigners,their listening will be easily improved.
4.Paying Attention to English Pronunciation Strengthening the practice of distinguishing the pronunciation of different words and paying more attention to liaison and assimilation, elision and incomplete plosion.
(1)The Practice of Distinguishing the Pronunciation of Different Words.(2)Master of liaison.In a meaning group, when the final sound of the previous word is a consonant, we must link the final consonant to the initial vowel sound of the following word.This is called liaison.When a word ending with “r”or“r”goes before a word beginning with a vowel sound, the sound [ r ] is usually pronounced as a link. (3) Master of Assimilation. Speech sounds seldom occur in isolation. They are nearly always joined together to form words and groups of words. In connected speech, sounds, under the influence of their neighbors, are replaced by other sounds. Sometimes two neighboring sounds influence each other and are replaced by a third sound, which is different from both the original sounds. This process is called assimilation. (4)Master of Incomplete Plosion. When a plosive consonant is immediately followed by another plosive, only the second plosive is fully exploded, the first plosive is incomplete. This is known as incomplete plosion, which often takes place at the junction of words. (5)Making Brief Notes. In the listening course, though some of our students can understand the meanings of the listening material, they have difficulty in finishing the questions. So making brief notes seems to be important for our students, so when they are listening to short passages. And it will help them to remember what they hear. As we know, while listening, it’s impossible and unnecessary for them to write down the whole sentence.
I think it an effective method for the students to improve their listening ability. The students can accept these methods. If they form the good habit of listening and insist on listening to English each day, the students will make progress in their listening ability.
1.Creating a language environment. We know the largest difference between mother language learning and foreign language learning is the environment. A child can soon learn his mother language well. He has heard a lot before he can say something and walk. Then after he is able to walk and say, he has a chance of listening to more. Before he goes to school, he has already been a good listener and speaker. But for a foreign language, they can meet it only in formal places,classes, for example, otherwise, they can hardly have a chance to meet it. So I think we should try to let the students be in a language environment.
2.Master of knowledge. Our students should work hard at English language, master a lot of English words, phrases and proverbs and remember the usage and collocation of these English words. And out of class, they should try to learn more about the customs, political systems, the backgrounds of culture sociality of English-speaking countries, the knowledge of other subjects, such as mathematics, physics, chemistry and so on. During their holidays, they should read more magazines, newspapers in order to enrich their eyesight, for example, English Weekly,China Daily, The 21st Century, World Vision, Readers and so on. It will help them better understand the listening materials. Enlarge the students’knowledge about English.
3.Master the Oral English. I think the phonetic symbol is the base. Let the students grasp the phonetic symbol. Oral reading after a radio or a teacher is a good way at the beginning.Students should do much about it.Pay attention to the oral reading skill. When they can speak English like foreigners,their listening will be easily improved.
4.Paying Attention to English Pronunciation Strengthening the practice of distinguishing the pronunciation of different words and paying more attention to liaison and assimilation, elision and incomplete plosion.
(1)The Practice of Distinguishing the Pronunciation of Different Words.(2)Master of liaison.In a meaning group, when the final sound of the previous word is a consonant, we must link the final consonant to the initial vowel sound of the following word.This is called liaison.When a word ending with “r”or“r”goes before a word beginning with a vowel sound, the sound [ r ] is usually pronounced as a link. (3) Master of Assimilation. Speech sounds seldom occur in isolation. They are nearly always joined together to form words and groups of words. In connected speech, sounds, under the influence of their neighbors, are replaced by other sounds. Sometimes two neighboring sounds influence each other and are replaced by a third sound, which is different from both the original sounds. This process is called assimilation. (4)Master of Incomplete Plosion. When a plosive consonant is immediately followed by another plosive, only the second plosive is fully exploded, the first plosive is incomplete. This is known as incomplete plosion, which often takes place at the junction of words. (5)Making Brief Notes. In the listening course, though some of our students can understand the meanings of the listening material, they have difficulty in finishing the questions. So making brief notes seems to be important for our students, so when they are listening to short passages. And it will help them to remember what they hear. As we know, while listening, it’s impossible and unnecessary for them to write down the whole sentence.
I think it an effective method for the students to improve their listening ability. The students can accept these methods. If they form the good habit of listening and insist on listening to English each day, the students will make progress in their listening ability.