Problems And Countermeasures Of English Listening Teaching In Foreign Languages Schools

As the primary means of language input, listening plays a key role in the perception and learning of language. Listening is regarded as an important means as well as the main purpose of language learning. Listening is viewed as the foundation of the other language skills.Foreign languages schools are characterized by their English teaching and stand ahead of other secondary schools in it. However, it is not without problems in the course of their development in recent years. It is necessary to do research on listening teaching in foreign languages schools. This article, by exploring the current situation and relevant problems in the school where I work, aims at the construction of a comparatively perfect listening teaching system so as to promote its teaching reform and improve the students' English listening proficiency.Listening comprehension is characterized by an active and complicated psychological process, which has been demonstrated by the schema theory and the information-processing models involving bottom-up, top-down and interactive processing. While listening, learners are required to reconstruct and comprehend the meaning of the materials with the help of context and background knowledge as well as all sorts of strategies.This paper does some researches on its current situation and related problems in Wuhan Foreign Languages school, by first doing a literature review in this field and then basing on the author's ten years of teaching experience. There are many factors affecting the teaching of listening. This paper introduces and analyses the current situation and problems from the aspects of teachers, students, materials and teaching methods. Furthermore, the paper puts forward a series of strategies to optimize the English listening teaching in the foreign languages school.The whole paper consists of five chapters:Chapter One briefly states the practical significance of the study and the organization of this dissertation.Chapter Two introduces the theoretical basis of this research. It presents a literature...