How to improve the ability of listening.docx

1、How to improve the ability of listeningHow to improve the ability of listening, speaking, reading and writingi IntroductionThe purpose of middle school English teaching is to improve the students four skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing, with the base of necessary phonetics, large voc

2、abulary and good grammar, but this is not the final purpose. the final purpose is to lot let students be able to use the language.Why do we study English? If a man is only good at listening and speaking, can we say that he is good at English? No, if a man is only good at reading and writing, can we

3、say that he is good at the language? No, if a student is good at English, he should be able to use the language, both in speaking and writing.Now most of the students do better in reading and writing English than in listening and speaking. They can read and write, but they can hardly communicate. Th

4、ey can hardly express themselves with their own words. This is partially because of our examination system, and partially of the teaching method . We are not able to change the examination system, but we can improve our teaching method. Most of all the teachers like to provide the students with a lo

5、t of knowledge-words, phrases, grammar, usages and so on. They are focusing these things, especially on the grammar. Yes, the students do need these, but many teachers forget to teach them how to study English, and how to use it. So when you are giving the knowledge to the students, dont forget to t

6、each them all the abilities of the four skills.ii. Ways on developing the four abilities1. ListeningThe teachers often speak of the four skills- listening, speaking, reading and writing. That means each of them is important. You cant say that you have mastered the language without any one of them, l

7、istening, one of the means of language communication, is used most widely in peoples daily lives. About 45% of an adults time concerns listening to other people , listening to the radio, listening to the music. in linguistics ，giving the students a lot of listening activities is a good way of enlarg

8、ing their vocabulary. On the other hand, it also helps the students improve their listening comprehension.I have done an investigation. about 43.2% of the students think that the most bothering and the most difficult is listening comprehension, and even some of them have some difficulties in underst

9、anding their teacher who gives lessons in English.Without question, it is difficult for a middle school student to understand the listening material, if he hasnt enough vocabulary and the ability of telling the grammar construction. In my investigation, about 35% of the students with low listening c

10、omprehension thing this is because they dont understand or know the knowledge about linguistic, they are not able to tell the means of a what they have heard. In my another investigation, students were asked to listen to a dialogue of 244 words, in which the words and grammar have already been learn

11、ed. but 85% of them thought it was too difficult. Then, using the same dialogue as a reading comprehension material, i found only 5% of them thought it was a little difficult, on the other hand the response ability is also another reason.It is clear that the reading speed of a material also affects.

12、 about 43% of the students thought that the material was read too fast and they couldnt follow.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 meet some difficult words or sentences, and a great many

13、students could understand the material directly, they often translate the English into chinese in their hearts, thinking that only in this way can the sentence be understood. This is also a reason, trying to understand each word is difficult, and it is not necessary at all. You should catch the most

14、 important points.Then how to improve the students listening skill.We know the largest difference between mother language learning and foreign language learning is the environment. A child can soon learn his mother language well. He has heard a lot before he can say something and walk. Then after he

15、 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.But for a foreign language, you can meet it only in formal places, classes, for example, otherwise, you can hardly have a chance to meet it. So I think you should

16、 try to let the students be in a language environment.Let the students grasp the phonetic symbol. i think the phonetic symbol is the base. A good 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

17、 attention to the 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 word. the teacher must give correct information about it . there is no easy way.E

18、nlarge the students knowledge about English. Encourage the students to read something in their spare time about geography, history, culture, stories and so on. For example, there are two materials of the same difficulty. One explains something about chinas Spring Festival, the other is about Thanks-

19、giving Day of the western countries. The former is easy to understand but the latter is more difficult. Why it is clearly because the students know little about the latter.Both listening test and listening practice are necessary, but practice is more important.You can understand your students throug

20、h listening tests. Only through the practice can the students improve their listening comprehension. SpeakingSpeaking cant be taught separately. It is often connected with listening. So we often speak of listening and speaking.The traditional way of listening and speaking is aural-oral method. Now,

21、the new method of two-way communication is very popular.As you know that any teaching method has its psychological base. The aural-oral method began in the 1940s. it is based on behaviourism. One of its psychological theory is that learning a language is forming a set of new language habit. This is

22、its usual process: stimulus-response-reinforcement.The aural-oral method is fit for the teaching of beginning stage. It focuses on the practice of oral english drills. But too many drills are being practiced without any context or given conditions. So what is learned is isolated clauses. and it has

23、few communicative functions .The two-way communication makes up for the defect in communicative ability in the traditional teaching. Two-way means the relationship of the communication between the teacher and the students.This relationship is connected with the communicative activities between two p

24、eople. This method is different from the traditional aural-oral method. But it also bases on the process of s-r-r. So we call it a mew type of aural-oral method has some peculiarities.It can create a fresh environment for speaking English.It needs some necessary explanations of grammar, including so

25、me sentence structures.Here are the major way of practice.Teachers can control the practice wholly or partly.The practice can also be controled by students freely. the internal force of study is not due to the insterests in phonetic structure, but the content of the material，to make the correct resp

26、onse, the students are asked to pay more attention.For example:Teacher: Ask me if i am a student.Student: Are you a student？T： Tell me-no, youre a teacher.S： No, im a teacher.In this example, ask me means that the student must say a question sentence while tell me shows that the student must say a d

27、ecarative sentence. but before doing this, the teacher must explain something about the exchange of interrogative sentence and declarative sentence.The two-way communication can lengthen the dialogue limitlessly. This is its advantage. At the same time, if the student wants to give the correct respo

28、nse, he has to think it hard, the sentence is not easily forgotten which is ereated by themselves through thinking, sometimes with the teachers hint. You can talk freely. You can express yourself as well as you can. for example:T: Ask me how mang people there are in my family.S: How many people are

29、there in your family?T: Tell me-there are five.S: There are five.T: Ask me what my prreuts do.S: What do your parents do?T: Tell me-your father is a teacher and your mother works in a company.S: My father is a teacher and my mother works in a company.T: Ask me if my father likes his job.S: Does your

30、 father like his job?T: Tell me - sure, he likes teaching very much.S: Sure, he likes teaching very much.All these responses form a complete dialogue.A: How many people are there in your family ?B: There are five.A: What do your parents do?B: My father is a teacher and my mother works in a company.A

31、: Does your father like his job?B: Sure, he likes teaching very much.If you want to ask more about father or other family members, the dialogue can go on as far a possible.So, in a word, the aural-oral method is not a out-of-date one, but a useful one. Especially it is fit for the beginning stage. I

32、t attaches the importance to the oral drills, and has a bad communicative function. It is only used to aphonetic base. After all, the aim of the language learning is to communicate. So the two-way comunication is more effective and direct, but it is also fit for the beginning stage. ReadingReading is an important way of gaining information in foreign language learning, it is a basic skill for a foreign language learner. There is a lot of reading exercises in an examination today. But all these readings must be done in limited time. So students are asked to read