On Strategies of Improving the English Listening Abilities of Junior Middle School Students 英语专业毕业论文.doc

Contents Abstract I Introduction 1 1. The current situation of the teaching of English listening in middle school 1 1.1 The importance of listening 2 1.2 The problem of the teaching of listening 2 2. The analysis of the reasons for students’ poor listening ability 2 2.1 Teacher’s factor 2 2.2 Student’s factor 3 2.2.1 Phonetics and phonology factor 3 2.2.2 Vocabulary factor and Grammar factor 4 2.2.3 Listening habits 4 2.2.4 Background knowledge 5 2.2.5 Psychological factors 5 2.3 Environment factor 5 3. How to improve students’ listening ability 7 3.1 About the teaching aspect 7 3.1.1 Improve the teacher’ own general quality 7 3.1.2 Development of students’ interest in English listening 7 3.1.3 Design the pre-listening, while-listening, and post-listening classroom activities. 8 3.2 About the student aspect 12 3.2.1 Improvement of students’ pronunciation 12 3.2.2 Enhancement of students’ vocabularies and grammar knowledge 12 3.2.3 Extension of students’ cultural background knowledge 12 3.2.4 Taking notes and developing good habits 13 3.2.5 Develop a good state of mind 14 3.3 About the environment aspect 14 4. Conclusion 15 Bibliography 16 Acknowledgements 17 Abstract With the development of the society, our country constantly carries out the educational reform to meet the demand of the 21st century — the era of knowledge economy. More and more emphasis is being put on “the program of balanced development”. Meanwhile, English teaching and learning should be regarded as a course of all-round development of the four skills, which refer to listening, speaking, reading and writing. However, listening is a relatively difficult skill for the students. The new English curriculum standard issued by the Education Ministry stresses the importance of improving the junior middle school students’ listening ability, because at the beginning of the 2000s’, the problem of the students’ poor English listening ability is becoming more and more serious in China. In order to solve this