An Analysis of Student Anxiety in English Listening

Listening has been playing a key role in daily communication and ELT.However,it’s an obstacle for most non-English majors.Among affective factors the students encounter in listening,anxiety is the most usual one.In this paper,I will analyze the situation based on my observations on listening class and interviews with some students in terms of the relationship between students’ anxiety and their listening performance and the characteristics of the listening materials.Subsequently,with the interviews with some students,some possible ways of improving listening ability are discussed.     

Teaching Listening in an Effective Way

How to teaching and learning listening in an effective way, which perplexes not only teachers but also students. The paper introduces some practice in author’s routine teaching in order to improve our listening and learning.     

An Analysis of English Listening Test-taking Skills and Strategies for College Entrance Examination under A New Field of View

As we all know, listening has always been a weak point in students' English learning. Doing English listening tests often encounter some difficulties. At the same time, many students have a serious fear of listening test, and listening itself has a transient effect, so students should be able to calmly cope with the listening test to play the best level. In addition, students need to understand the types of the college entrance examination listening test , listen to more listening practice and lay a solid foundation. Students should also master some listening skills, so as to obtain high scores.     

How to Solve the Problems in English Listening

Listening is the foundation of four basic skills.It is one of the most difficult parts for students.There are a lot of problems in English listening comprehension.How to solve the problems and increase students listening ability? This paper analyses students’ problems in English listening and advances some corresponding solutions and strategies.     

Research on the Interrelationship among Understanding, Memory and Oral Expression in Listening Teaching of non-English in Higher Vocational College

This is a research report on the interrelationship among understanding, memory and oral expression in listening comprehension training. The research investigated 150 non-English majors through a questionnaire in a higher vocational college. The result indicates that the interrelationship among understanding, memory and oral expression in listening classes which are determined by the listening materials and teaching method directly influences students’ listening proficiency and speaking ability. It is suggested that some strategies to be used to foster students’ abilities in these three areas so as to improve their listening ability.     

A Brief Research on Listening Comprehension in the Light of Effort Models in Interpreting

As English interpreting majors,we know that listening comprehension is the fundamental element of interpreting,but we still encounter a lot of listening problem,such as missing some words,misunderstanding some sentences,and so on.This paper endeavors to analyze some main problems with Daniel Gile’s Effort Models in Interpreting.     

A Brief Analysis of the Strategy to Improve the Listening Comprehension Part in SCET-3

As we know,SECT-3 is an important means to test the English language ability of a student who is not an English major in the vocational schools in Sichuan province.Of all the parts in the SCET-3,the majority of students think that the listening comprehension part is the most difficult one.There are some ways to tackle these problems in the listening part.By comparison and analysis of these questions appeared in the past few years,some regular patterns can be found.Different strategies can be used to solve different questions of each section in the listening comprehension part,so that students will feel easier in passing the SCET-3.     

On Vocational Students’Listening Obstacles and Strategies

English listening is one of the most important but the most difficult parts in English teaching. It is not only the main way of acquiring language information , but the base of improving other skills. However, during the College English teaching and learning process, teaching of listening has been the difficult point, troubling teachers and students, So, improving students’ listening skill is the current problem to be solved by the teachers. In this article, based on my observations, questionnaires and interviews in classes for many years, I found out some barriers of English listening existing among my students. Therefore, I put forward some listening teaching strategies and methods to improve College students’ listening skill.     

English Listening Class on ELT in Chinese Universities’College English Computer Based Test 4

As China enters WTO,more college graduates with higher English proficiency are required.They are required to pass CET4,while some college graduates even forced to pass CET6.However,we learned that even students in some distinguished universities are lack of the ability of listening and speaking.In this paper,it mainly talks about the role of English listening class in CBT4.     

The Obstacles and Solutions to Improving Non English-major Students’Listening Comprehension

Listening has been playing an essential role in daily communication.However,listening is the most difficult part and has been an obstacle in the process of learning English for most of learners for a variety of reasons.The paper mainly discusses the linguistic and non—linguistic obstacles in the process of listening and aims to help English learners find out their own shortcomings and put forward some corresponding solutions to improve learners' listening ability.     

Using Learning Strategies:A Review in L2 Listening Research

This paper briefly reviews some significant learning strategies in L2 listening research.By pointing out both the feasibil ities and difficulties in implementing those strategies in Chinese EFL classrooms,it attempts to raise English language practitio ners’awareness of reforming the listening instruction and of utilizing strategic teaching approaches so as to enhance students’lis tening proficiency.     

Analysis of Factors Influencing English Listening Teaching and the Countermeasures

English teaching focuses on cultivating and improving students’listening,speaking,reading,writing and translating skills,which are complementary to each other.Among these five skills,listening,as an important basic skill,should be put into top priority in English teaching.Mainly based on the analysis of factors influencing English listening teaching,the paper puts for ward some effective countermeasures in improving teaching effectiveness.     

Task-based Teaching of College English Listening

With the reform of CET-4, CET-6 examination, the proportion of listening part obviously has been increased, how to improve students’ listening ability and the teaching of college English listening is worth to be studied and developed in the practice. Tasked-based teaching is particularly concerned in the English education area in China, which emphasizes to make learners study English naturally by finishing some task. This paper starts from the perspective of task-based teaching to discuss how it will be effectively pu t into practice in the teaching of college English listening. Task-based teaching can scientifically use class time to improve students’ independent learning ability.     

对大学英语听力课教学的一些思考

Many problems can be seen in the practical listening class, such as a distorted listening motivation, a lack of sufficient and authentic input and a corresponding neglect of metacognitive awareness of learning in actual teaching. In fact, what we are doing in the listening class is to test rather than to teach, to foster the passive receiver rather than the active learner. This article analyzes these problems from theoretical perspective, speculating on the limitations in terms of the comprehensible input, the affective filter and metacognitive awareness. Then, based on the author teaching experience, it provides some suggestions to solve the present problems. It suggests what is needed in teaching listening is careful consideration of pre-,during and post- listening tasks incorporating both the top-down and bottom-up processes.     

Evaluation of Pre-listening Activities by Effective Listeners and Less-effective Listeners

This study,which is about pre-listening activities in language comprehension,seeks to obtain a better understanding of Chinese EFL students’listening comprehension in relation to radio news broadcasts.It investigates listeners’evaluation of the effects of pre-listening activities involving three listening texts with three kinds of different pre-listening activities.The findings yielded that the pre-listening activities had some impact on influencing the listeners’listening comprehension and it differed for effective and less-effective listeners.     

Developing Note-taking and Summary Writing as a Listening Test Method

Note-taking and Summary Writing reflects the true nature of listening comprehension in communication,represents a true and relatively overall picture of the college students’ communicative language ability.It has high validity,acceptable reliability and positive washback effect,and thus is a promising alternative to Multiple Choice as a listening test method in some large-scale tests.     

The correlation between accent perception accuracy and listening proficiency

This study tries to examine the correlation between Chinese EFL learners’ accent perception accuracy of and their listening proficiency.Accent annotation data were collected from 80 English-majored freshmen and sophomores.Results show that their accent perception accuracy is positively related to their listening proficiency.Therefore,it is concluded that the teaching of the accent should be enhanced to help students overcome some supersegmental obstacles in their listening.     

The Application of Affective Factors in College English Listening Teaching

The paper mainly discusses the importance of affective factors in college English listening teaching and gives some sug gestions on how to cultivate students’positive affective factors.     

Research on Application of Metacognitive Strategy in English Listening in the Web-based Self-access Learning Environment

Metacognitive strategies are regarded as advanced strategies in all the learning strategies.This study focuses on the application of metacognitive strategies in English listening in the web-based self-access learning environment(WSLE) and tries to provide some references for those students and teachers in the vocational colleges.     

Listening Barriers Among Chinese Students And Training Tactics

Listening is an important means of language learning. It is one of the important ways in Englishlanguage communication. According to Rivers study indications, listening occupies 45% of the whole socialinteractions. From this, we can see that a good listening can help to improve students'ability of languageunderstanding. And some statistics show that nearly 50% students regard listening comprehension as themost difficult part among all kinds of examinations. Where are their barriers? How to t…