1、宁夏民族职业技术学院Ningxia Vocational and Technical College for Minorities毕业论文（20 15 届）论文题目：_院（系）：_专 业：_学 号：_姓 名：_指导教师：_How to Improve the Abilities of Listening Comprehension Foreign Language Department ofNingxia Vocational and Technical College for MinoritiesMarch 23, 2015AcknowledgmentsThis thesis has bee
2、n in gestation for several months. During this period of time I have benefited a great deal of support and help from my supervisor, teachers and classmates. First of all, I am particularly grateful to my supervisor Ms. Wang Liang, for her valuable suggestions and her earnest and patient guidance. Wi
3、thout his guidance and help, timely completion of this paper would not be possible. My heart felt thanks go to other teachers, who either gave me lectures or were generous to offer me valuable reference materials. Much appreciation is due to my dear classmates, who have helped me in one way or anoth
4、er during my hard work. Their encouragement is very important to the timely completion of this thesis. AbstractLanguage is a means of communication, and listening is an indispensable part of communication. It is also considered as one of the most difficulties to conquer for students learning English
5、. With the development of modern English teaching, more and more educators have pointed out the practice use of listening comprehension so that they pay more attention to developing the students listening ability in their English teaching. Whats more，listening takes about 30 percent of the total mar
6、ks in students middle school entrance examination. As a teacher, we should try our best to provide our students with lots of listening skills and useful ways to improve their listening.Key words: listening , ability , skills , improve 摘 要语言是交流的工具，而听力是交流不可或缺的一部分，它也被认为是学生在学习英语中最难克服的的困难之一。随着现代英语教学的发展，越
7、来越多的教育工作者已经指出，听力理解的练习和使用能使他们更加注重学生的英语听力技能。更有甚者，在中学入学考试中英语听力占总分数百分之三十的分值。因此作为一名教师，我们应当尽力提供能够提高学生英语听力各方面技能的有用的方法。关键词:英语听力，技能, 课堂语言,提高 ContentsAcknowledgments.iAbstract.ii摘要.iii1 Introduction.12 Factors and reasons.12.1Main reasons and factors of teachers.22.1.1 Paying no attention to listening.22.1.2
8、Lacking of right training skills22.2 Main reasons and factors of students22.2.1 The emotional factor32.2.2 The willpower factor.33 Ways and skills.33.1 Suggestions for teachers.43.1.1 Help students to establish self-confidence.43.1.2 Use modern teaching aids in teaching listening .43.1.3 Offer stude
9、nts easy ways to learn.53.2 Suggestions for students.53.2.1 Paying attention to pronunciation53.2.2 Listening for the specific information.63.2.3 Guessing the meaning of the words.63.2.4 Taking notes while listening73.2.5 Insisting on listening .7 4 Conclusion.7Bibliography.9As we all know, students
10、 are learners, they are the subject in the teaching process. Some bad habits and improper listening ways will lead to the de-cline and gradually tired of English listening.2.2.1 The emotional factorWhen beginning a listening class, some students will be nervous, anxious and depressed mentality, the
11、process of their mental speech activity will be in a restrictive condition, so low in thought. It is difficult for them to develop the normal listening level. The material which was familiar to them formerly will get strange, then the more they listen, the less interested in they are, so the more th
12、ey wont listen, the less will enter the brain. Some students tend to find faults with teachers, such as outdate clothing, unpleasant voices, strong accents. Which lead them to have no interest in listening. There are also some students who sill turn off their ears if they think the subject is dull,
13、not interesting of funny, such as the notion and conception.2.2.2 The willpower factorSometimes, students cant control themselves in listening class. They may think of something else while listening. As a result, they cant keep up with the speed of the speaker, even they cant help giving up listenin
14、g.3 Ways and skillsSo, how to get rid of the bad habits of teachers and students, and i-mprove students English listening? Which is the most important thing for students.3.1 Suggestions for teachersA good teacher should teach students how to study. As the famous saying goes,“Give a man a fish and he
15、ll eat for a day, teach a man to fish and hell eat for ever.” We should provide students some listening skills.3.1.1 Help students to establish self-confidenceIn teachers spare time, he should pay more attention to the students, especially to the failing students. The teacher should have friendly in
16、teraction with his students, he can provide eye contact, body gesture a-nd voice tone to express his respect and positive regard for the students, help them develop pride and self-confidence. Dont show your special favoritism to those successful students, which will hurt the failing students. And tr
17、y to encourage students to study hard by saying “You can ! You are unique ! ”3.1.2 Use modern teaching aids in teaching listeningNow TV, radios, recorders, computers are widely used in teaching, which makes teaching activities direct, lively and vivid. They help enlarge the teaching contents, quicke
18、n the teaching rhythm and help the students understand the materials more easily. In my teaching experience, I have found it best to do listening practice on computers. We put the voice of listening materials in the computers, We can let students listen as many times as possible without worrying abo
19、ut putting back or forward the tape. Although it often takes us lots of time to do so before class, it can really save us more time in class.3.1.3 Offer students easy ways to learn.It is very important to give students more practice in this way, because in real life, they will not be able to reliste
20、n to something as easily as reread a passage. Therefore, it will be impossible for them to catch all the details, so they need to keep calm with some ambiguity in listening and realize that they can still learn even though when they do not understand every single word. Teacher can provide the studen
21、ts with some idea of what they are going to hear and what they are asked to do with. It will help them to succeed in catching the gist of what they are listening to.3.2 Suggestions for studentsStudents are the study main body, they should start from themselves, start from the details, and gradually
22、improve the English listening ability.3.2.1 Paying attention to pronunciationPronunciation is an important factor in the English listening comprehension, a famous educator has ever said “As long as you can pronounce correctly, your audition will get a huge progress in a day.” Paying attention to the
23、 oral reading skill, it includes stress, strong form, weak form, intonation incomplete plosive consonant, affricate consonant, syllable and so on. Training and practicing the oral reading is not a days work. There is no easy way. 3.2.2 Listening for the specific informationIt is important to train o
24、ur students to listen for getting specific information, because there are many situations in real life where we listen only for some specific details. We need to ignore the rest of the listening message. For example, when we are sitting in a train station, we need not listen to all the announcements
25、. We are only interested in the train, which we will take, and the time when we will leave. Therefore teachers should teach students to listen to a variety of types of listening texts for different purposes so that they will develop different listening skills to use for different situations. In list
26、ening process, teachers can let students listen with a specific purpose in mind. And let students ask themselves what they are listening for, are they listening for general understanding of the whole lecture or conversation? 3.2.3 Guessing the meaning of the wordsWhen the students listen to a person
27、 speaking their own language in many situations, they can be one step ahead of the speaker. They can very often predict what the person is going to say next, perhaps not the exact words but at least the main idea. The more they predict, the easier it beco-mes to understand in a foreign language too.
28、 The students should train th- emselves to predict as much as possible. When the students have listening practice or exam, they should go over the words on the paper quickly before the tape starts, then guess what kind of question or content theyll hear according to the choices on the paper, then tr
29、y to get the key words. When meeting new words while listening, guess their meanings from the content.3.2.4 Taking notes while listening. Students should learn to make some simple notes while listening, for example, the names of people and places, time, age, distance, occupation, figures and so on t
30、o get a better understanding of the content.3.2.5 Insisting on listening Only through the practice can the students improve their listening. As is known to us all, “practice makes perfect. Rome was not built in a day” Keep listening continuously in our daily life, 30 minutes a day better than 3.5 ho
31、urs a week. Generally speaking, a good listener should know exactly listening is important and valuable, after all, nothing can replace it. 4 ConclusionThis paper points out that we should help students to solve the problems in listening teaching and learning, and also pay more attention to the fact
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