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1、AbstractEnglish has become a very important tool in communication with the globalization of the world economy. However, listening is very important in English learning, because listening is thus fundamental to speaking. But the present situation is that listening teaching and research in the middle

2、schools are not satisfactory. Based on the research of listening and study of group work; this paper analysis the problems existing in the current listening teaching in middle schools. And then take a sample teaching of group work for an example to analysis the application of group work in English l

3、istening teaching. It believes that group work is a very practical activity of teaching classroom in foreign language teaching. Group work not only can ascertain the students principal part and promote the communication and collaboration; but also can create a more freely atmosphere, develop student

4、s interests, lead a competition between students and improve their English competence in real-life communication. At the same time, it analyzes some problems of taking group work in teaching classroom, and provides some suggestion to solve and avoid these problems.Key words: group work, communicatio

5、n, listening teaching 摘要随着世界经济的全球化，英语已成为十分重要的交际工具。在英语学习中，听力是十分重要的，因为听是说的基础。但目前我国的初中英语听力教学仍不尽人意。本文通过对听力理解和小组合作学习的研究，分析了当前中学英语听力教学中存在的问题,并以课堂教学设计为例分析了小组活动在听力教学中的应用，证明小组活动在外语教学中是一种非常有效的教学活动形式,它不仅可以确立学生的主体地位，促进师生和生生之间的交流与合作，而且可以创设更为宽松的学习环境，调动学生的学习积极性，鼓动学生之间的竞争，提高学生在现实生活中的英语交际能力。同时,就教师和学生在应用小组活动中可能会碰到的问题

6、进行了分析,并提出了一些避免和解决的建议.关键词：小组活动，交际，听力教学ContentsAcknowledgement iAbstract in English .iiAbstract in Chinese .iii1 Introduction.1 1.1 Definition of Listening .1 1.2 Position of Listening in English Listening Teaching .2 1.3 Review of Studies of Listening Comprehension Overseas and Home32 Studies of Grou

7、p Work .52.1 Definition of Group-Work.52.2 The Principles of Grouping.52.3 Teachers Role in Group Work.62.4 Advantage of Group Work .73 Existing Problems in the Current English Listening Teaching.83.1 Problems of Students.93.2 Problems of Traditional Teaching Method .93.3 Problems of Listening Mater

8、ial .104 How to Apply Group Work in English Listening Teaching.104.1 A Sample Procedure of Group Work .104.2 Listening Activities in Group Work.124.3 Sample Teaching of Group Work .134.4 Result and Problem.165 Conclusion.17Bibliography.18The Application of Group Work in English ListeningTeaching of

9、Middle Schools1 Introduction With the development of the world economy and participation of the WTO, English has become a very important foreign language in China. Although the students start to learn English in primary school, their communicative capacity is not satisfactory. Because listening has

10、long been neglected, especially in middle school language teaching, students cant listen and understand the sentence meaning, so they cant speak. Also because the traditional teaching approach has dominated the listening class for a very long time in China, the listening teaching focus on processes

11、of understanding and the words meaning rather than being taught how to get information and how to cope with their listening problems in class.Presently, classroom listening teaching is paid more attention in middle school. However, listening is not a one-way teaching activity. Students themselves sh

12、ould participate in the class. Before come to how to improve the situation of English listening teaching, a literature review is necessary. 1.1 Definition of ListeningListening is the ability to identify and understand what others are saying. This involves understanding a speakers accent or pronunci

13、ation, his grammar and his vocabulary, and grasping his meaning （Howatt and Dakin 1974）. An able listener is capable of doing these four things at the same time.Tomas Scovel （2000） defines listening as the process of receiving, attending to, and assigning meaning to aural and visual stimuli. Listeni

14、ng is an active process that includes attending, understanding, and evaluating. Attending is the perceptual process of selecting specific stimuli from the countless stimuli reaching the sense. Remembering is the ability to retain information that is heard. Evaluating is the process of critically ana

15、lyzing what you have understood and interpreted in order to determine how truthful, authentic, or believable you judge the meaning to be.1.2 Position of Listening In English Listening TeachingIn fact, listening is the most frequently used language skill in everyday life. Researchers estimate that we

16、 listen twice as much as we speak, four times as much as we read, and five times as much as we write. According to the statistics 70 percent of the time is spent on forms of communicative activities when people are awakening. As the famous linguist C.C. Fries （1957） said, the premise of students to

17、learn English is to listen.Whats more, we can also be aware of the position of listening in the current listening teaching. The New English Curriculum Standard requires that by training the four skills the students should acquire not only the basic grammar knowledge but the preliminary ability to us

18、e English for communication as well. With the spreading adoption of the new national middle school English textbooks, more and more attention has been paid to comprehensive ability involving listening, speaking, reading and writing in teaching English. As a result, students listening and speaking ab

19、ility has been improved widely. Since 1999, listening comprehension has been part of the NMET （the National Matriculation English Test） officially with a proportion of 20, or 30 points. It also appears in almost all kinds of tests or exams. Teachers and students began to pay more attention to listen

20、ing comprehension and they added some listening classes in their daily teaching.These facts reflect that listening comprehension is of primary position in foreign language learning and more and more emphasis has been placed on the training of listening comprehension. The practical teaching methods t

21、o improve students listening ability appear to be a challenging subject for every teacher of EFLT （English as a Foreign Language Teaching）.1.3 Review of Studies of Listening Comprehension Overseas and HomeListening comprehension has not always drawn the same attention of scholars as now it has. Duri

22、ng the 1950s and 1960s, language teaching methodology was preoccupied with the speaking language. Listening as a major component in language learning and teaching first appeared in the late 1970s with James Asher （1977）. James Asher, The developer of Total Physical Response （TPR） found that children

23、 appear to do a lot of listening before they speak, and their listening is accompanied by physical responses. He referred that listening should develop before speaking, once listening comprehension has been developed; speech develops naturally and effortlessly out of it.Similarly, the Natural Approa

24、ch recommends a significant silent period during which students are allowed the security of listening without being forced to go through the anxiety of speaking before they were ready to do so. Tracy Terrell and Stephen Krashen developed the Natural Approach, starting in 1977; presumed students woul

25、d develop the listening comprehension skills in the preproduction stage.The empirical studies on listening strategies with Chinese students have appeared in the 1990s. An earlier study was conducted by Jiang Zukang in 1994 on the relationship between learning strategies and listening comprehension w

26、ith eleven universities and colleges, based on a large-scale study on Chinese students. （Wang Wenrong, 2006）. However, listening teaching and research in middle school are not satisfactory, because most of the students in middle school were never or seldom given listening training and the research o

27、n English listening in middle school is also poor. Most teachers try to improve students listening ability by setting listening environment, saying English as much as possible during the class, letting students do duty report at the beginning of class, using CAI and so on. The teachers and students

28、have done much and spent much time on English listening, but they only receive little effect. Therefore, it is very important and necessary for the middle school teachers to find a positive and useful listening teaching approach and create a fruitful teaching model.2 Studies of Group Work2.1 Definition of Group-WorkGroup work is a generic term covering a multiplicity of techniques in which two or more students are assigned a task involving collaboration and self-initiated language （Brown, 1994）. That is, group work is a cooperative activity in collaborative learning, in whic