Tips on afterClass Training of College English Listening Comprehension

1、课下大学英语听力理解训练的窍门tips on after-class training of college english listening comprehensioncontentsabstract.1key words.1i. introduction 21.1 learning english should follow the principle from simple to complex, from easy to difficult, and from rough to subtle31.2 learning english should follow the natural

2、 sequence of listening prior to speaking, reading prior to writing, accumulating prior to applying3ii. three stages of after-class listening practice for beginners .42.1 primary stage52.2 intermediate stage.62.3 advanced stage7iii. the main problems and solution to the problems.73.1 what problems do

3、 learners have?73.2 some skills about english listening comprehension83.3 real listening is an active process that has three basic steps 10 3.4 tips for being a good listener11iv. conclusion12references.12tips on after-class training of college english listening comprehension摘要： 我们知道母语的学习和外语的学习之间有很大

4、的不同之处。在当今这个社会,英语以成为世界语言,怎样学好英语怎样，已经是一件重要的事。其中，听、说、读、写、译是英语学习的五种重要技能。长期以来，许多英语学习者对听力学习的重视程度不够。殊不知在英语学习中，听、说、读、写，等方面是相辅相成，不可分割的，忽略其中的任何一方面都不利于英语学习水平的提高。我们要和别人交流就要说话，当然就要听懂。如何轻松的听懂英语，使英语的听力变的轻松起来。我们虽然在大学学习英语，但是有个别同学的听力仍然没有提高，我相信上课的听力学习是远远不够的，因此，我们也要注重课下的听力理解训练。指导学生课外进行泛听。听力课时有限，每周一节的听力课不能保证有效地提高学生的听力技能

5、。教师应指导学生课外收听英语广播、观看英文电视节目、欣赏英文录像、听英文歌曲等，使学生熟悉不同口音、性别、年龄、国家的读音，扩大知识面，培养语感，增强反应能力，达到提高听力的目的。关键词：英语听力理解；技巧；兴趣；方法abstract: we know the most distinguishable difficulty between mother language learning and foreign language learning; is in the language environment. nowadays, english has become the worlds u

6、niversal language. english proficiency has become one important skill. listening, speaking, reading writing and translating are the five basic language skills. for a long time, attention paid to practice for listening comprehension by a lot of english learners is not enough. in english study, all li

7、stening, speaking, reading and writing are to complement each other, inalienable; neglecting any respect among them is unfavorable to english study. we must learn from others, and understand each other. we study english at the university, but individual schoolmates listening comprehension is still n

8、ot very efficiently and effectively improved. i believe listening in class is so far insufficient; therefore, we have to pay great attention to listening practice out of classroom or after class.key words: english listening comprehension；skill；interest；method i. introductionnowadays, english has bec

9、ome the worlds universal language. english proficiency has become one important skill. listening, speaking, reading, writing and translating are the five basic language skills. for a long time, english learners attention paid to studying in listening is not enough. in english study, all listening, s

10、peaking, reading and writing are to complement each other, inalienable; neglecting any respect among them is unfavorable to the english study level. we must learn from the others, and understand each other. we study english at the university, but individual schoolmates listening comprehension is sti

11、ll not very effectively improved. i believe listening practice in class was so far insufficient; therefore, we have to pay great attention to the listening comprehension out of class or after class. the listening class hours are limited. listening class once a week cannot effectively enhances studen

12、ts listening skill. the teacher should instruct the student to listen to english radio programs, to watch english television programs and english video recording, to listen to english songs and so on, which help the student get familiar with different voices, ages, local pronunciations, to expand kn

13、owledge, to acquire the language feel, to enhance reaction capacity and to achieved the goal of enhancing their listening.before i go on to describe the argument for listening and how to carry out the english listening practice, i would like to say a few words on my students goals and needs.1) 25% o

14、f the group use english with americans and british people on a regular basis at work.2) 50% of the group are learning english so as to use it in an english speaking country and 25% to live and work there.3) 87.5% put it as a specific goal to understand native speakers and speak fluently. (the other

15、12.5% put it as a specific goal to speak like a native speaker.)this shows a great need and desire to practice and to be trained in listening comprehension, particularly with authentic materials featuring native speakers speech and a need to be presented with and become aware of the features of thes

16、e: stress, intonation, weak forms, elision, assimilation, catenation, using fillers, pauses, repetition, self correction, interruptions and all the discourse features used to signal a speakers intention.some of these features are of particular importance to the students. being chinese, as there is a

17、 noticeable difference between chinese and english in terms of word and sentence stress, intonation and weak forms.1.1 learning english should follow the principle from simple to complex, from easy to difficult, and from rough to subtle. a journey of a thousand li starts beneath ones feet. we should

18、 try to avoid pursuing whats beyond our reach in english learning. if we choose and study some difficult, complex, subtle materials at the very beginning with the hope of having better effect, it is proved to be a wrong attitude by practice. if learning materials go far beyond learners actual langua

19、ge level, such challenges arent desirable and just making learners frustrated and painful. it is the worst thing that learners interest and confidence are destroyed by unsuitable materials. if some english works seem too difficult, complex and subtle to us, i must point out, it lies in our lack of s

20、imilar life experiences apart from the obstacles of language itself (vocabulary and grammar). because were in too low life levels with too superficial thoughts, its natural we fail to understand the profound meaning of those articles1.2 learning english should follow the natural sequence of listenin

21、g prior to speaking, reading prior to writing, accumulating prior to applying.absorb more language materials according to your actual level and interest in your english learning. with your open mind, absorb as much as you can, and accumulate rich language materials as many as possible, such as engli

22、sh songs, novels, newspapers, magazines, movies, etc.as input and accumulation, listening and reading function as observation-based learning. try to imitate very pronunciation and intonation, every word and sentence from the rough to the subtle with a natural attitude. it varies with each individual

23、 when to rest for a period of time and let those input language materials processed in the brain according to the individual character.listening and reading is half of a full circle, complemented by speaking and writing as the other half, and with both given the same attention. keep circulating arou

24、nd the circle so that you can constantly improve your ability in english listening, reading, speaking and writing.listening is the important method, which people can exchange, according to the american professor paul blue jin the statistics, in peoples daily life, 45% listening, 30% speaking, 16% re

25、ading, 9% writing. from this, we may discover listening comprehensions importance. but listening is very difficult for lots of undergraduates.language itself, reflects life, culture and custom of a society, etc. studying english through english original edition papers and magazines, books, online en

26、glish, english broadcast, tv and film, you can find out more about the different outlooks on life, values behind a society and therefore better understanding life, culture, custom of a society. having understood these, we can find out the connection between life situation and the language.in non eng

27、lish speaking country such as china, what a good english education lacks most is a good language environment, but english original edition papers and magazines, books, online english, english broadcast, tv and film let you get in touch with western countries true life situations, such as life experi

28、ences that occur in a party, love, marriage, commerce, recreation, a school, a hospital, a supermarket, a bank, etc., which enable people to “stay indoors and know the affairs in this world”. because you have to read so many english original edition papers and magazines, books, online english, engli

29、sh broadcast, tvs and films, so you will not merely find that you do not have language obstacles at all first time going abroad.through getting touch with different aspects of english language, we not only learn more words, phrases, expressions, abbreviations and so on, but also read english newspap

30、ers, english magazines, english novels, the net english, english broadcast, english television programs and the topic that the people discuss in an english movie actually is precisely our daily life topic, when this language is visually shown to us a lot, heard often, till it is accumulated to a cer

31、tain degree, actual utilization often could prepare you words at fingertips.ii. three stages of after-class listening practice for beginnersthe teachers often speak of the four skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. that means each of them is important. you can not say that you have maste

32、red the language without any one of them, listening, one of the means of language communication, is used most widely in peoples daily lives. about 45% of an adults time is spent in listening to other people, listening to the radio, listening to the music. in linguistics，giving the students a lot of

33、listening activities is a good way of enlarging their vocabulary. on the other hand, it also helps the students improve their listening comprehension. a lot of students have their own listening habits. some students often try to understand each word or each sentence. they will think hard when they m

34、eet some difficult words or sentences, and a great many students could understand the material directly, they often translate the english into chinese in their heart, thinking that only in this way can the sentence be understood. this is also a reason, trying to understand each word is difficult, an

35、d it is not necessary at all. you should catch the most important points.then how to improve the students listening skill?we know the biggest difficulty between mother language learning and foreign language learning lies in the language environment. a child can soon learn his mother language well. h

36、e has heard a lot before he can say something and walks. 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.make the students grasp the phonetic symbols. phonetic symbols are a basic requirement. a go

37、od intonation and phonetic depends on the base. 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, it includes stress, strong form, weak form, intonation incomplete plosive consonant, affricate consonant,

38、 syllable and so on. training and practicing the oral reading is not a days word. the teacher must give correct information about it. there is no easy way.expand the students knowledge about english. encourage the students to read something in their spare time about geography, history, culture, stor

39、ies and so on.2.1 primary stage1) this stage still belongs to the foundation stage; you can go on training from the following aspects: consistent listening to the sentence pattern drilling exercises and short stories: it takes a long time to pay attention to this stage, which is very difficult. cont

40、inue to use the abc of sentence pattern stage to practice, you should strengthen in unit time listening quantity of material, and try to improve ones own accuracy. 2) in order to expand the vocabulary and get familiar with different accents, we can listen to some simple and easy materials about grea

41、t britain and america history, geography, etc. these speeches are generally suitable for about half an hour, increasing knowledge as well as listening. 3): english of radio broadcasting relates to contents of various fields such as politics, economy, culture, the language is more normal, pronunciati

42、on and intonation of announcer are the model, so it is an extremely good way to study english by listening to the radio of english. it is convenient for us to listen to the radio station of beijing (radio beijing), and most of the daily contents are the news about development of various fields of ou

43、r country. because the learner is familiar with these contents, which has reduced difficulty of listening, so it is more suitable to abs person with elementary listening comprehension. in this stage, listening focal point should be news broadcast, international situation analysis and comments of som

44、e culture of radio station of beijing. try to find out the universal law of the news broadcast while listening, pay attention to training some basic skills and methods of listening to news. if feeling difficult at the beginning, you can adopt the two following auxiliary methods: reading relevant art

45、icles such as beijing review (beijing review), china daily (china daily) or xinhuas telecom draft (xin-hua news bulletin) before listening to radio. in this way, on condition that you are prepared in grasping the content and relevant vocabulary, it will be much easier to listen to the radio of engli

46、sh. in addition, you can record and produce news to listen repeatedly, weigh sentence by sentence, which is a very good training method that transfers listening too. in this stage, you must go on exercising cooperated listening, making oral composition, etc. and launching the discussion in power.2.2

47、 intermediate stagecarry out the following training: listening to voice of america (voa) to broadcast (voa special english program) or english of bbc (bbc) and broadcast (bbc english by radio) at slow speed: these two programs are relatively slow in pace. at the beginning one can choose to listen to

48、 bbc or voa and then carry out the transition to another one progressively. so, while carrying out this training, you should read some english newspapers and magazines. 1) seeing and listening are combined. the ability to understand the film in listening practice and the drama: seeing the foreign la

49、nguage film can be included in the training at this stage. it is quite difficult to listen to the lines of the film and the drama at the beginning. you can read some domestic films translated into english first, for instance sparkling red star even slide high jade treasure , etc. then select to see

50、the film well-known, for instance lenin is in 1918 , war and peace “, etc. you can try to listen to some language norms, the original edition great britain and america film with healthy content, such as ice the sea sunken ship a million pounds oliver twist whether red water chestnut gaudy and sunday

51、 english of cctv the talks of some great britain and america films are often showed in these programs, you cant require every sentence, each word understood, you should correct to get hold of story plot and important detail as the standard. 2) some listening which continues the first two stages is t

52、rained: it is long-term for listening, following own weak link and developing towards new content, each one insists and goes on some the first two listening that stage adopts to practice the form, but difficulty and vocabulary are all strengthened to some extents, you should listen to the reports of

53、 great britain, americas culture and political economy, scholar of visiting china for about an hour that in nowadays everybody is interested in international questions.2.3 advanced stageat this stage, the english learner should reach or be close to the listening level of the british and the american

54、s, and can deal with various situations. 1) listening to foreign accents, you should listen to the program with normal language speed. listen to more special columns or comments and reports from news especially. 2) under the possible condition, you try to listen to the academic discussion in english

55、 and reports of literature, history, political economy etc. and participate in the discussion activity after the meeting of report actively. 3) if interested, you can further train yourself by going on to read the tv or radio drama lines and poems aloud, for instance, classic dramas such as shakespe

56、are, bernard, neil, etc.4)practice listening with english courses, study english to grasp one language tool, thus mastering ones own specialty better, so you should reach and can understand professional course or report taught in english at this listening stage. we listen in many situations to the t

57、v, radio, formally in lectures or speeches, recordings like songs or messages on the telephone but the majority of spoken language is person to person and we can generalize its nature.there are some important factors to take into consideration when listening, some things that characterizes it in mos

58、t situations according to penny ur are:1) we listen for a purpose and with certain expectations.2) we make an immediate response to what we hear.3) there are some visual or environmental clues as to the meaning of what is heard. iii. the main problems and solution to the problems3.1 what problems do learners have?having looked at some characteristics of listening and its difficulties, we must consider the learn