原文颇长,分为四大部分。作者在第一大部份中着重指出专供英语教学用的听力材料的欠妥之处,即语调单调而造作、只有标准音、结构重复、语句完整正规、讲话顺序明确、语速划一而缓慢、对话各方语量均等、缺乏表示听者在聆听的信号、词汇有限、信息过多和无噪音干扰……等等。这里节译刊载其二、四两部分。 Long original, divided into four parts. In the first part, the author emphatically pointed out that the defects of the listening materials used for English teaching are the monotony of tones, the standard tones only, the repeated structures, the complete and formal sentences, the clear speech sequence, the uniform and slow speed of speech , Equal volume of dialogue, lack of signals that listeners are listening, limited vocabulary, excessive information and no noise interference ... and so on. Here section translated its two or four two parts.