Applying Listening Strategies To Teaching Of English Listening In Junior High Schools

Listening comprehension ability is one of the basic skills in language competence. It plays a crucial role in our daily life as well as in language learning. Listening teaching is of great significance in the junior high school English teaching. Listening comprehension ability plays a very important part in improving students'comprehensive language competence in English learning, moreover, listening test is indispensable in key examinations such as high school entrance examination and college entrance examination. The aim of this paper is to explore how to employ listening strategies to guide English listening teaching and so as to improve junior high school students'listening comprehension.Based on the three learning strategies, namely meta-cognitive strategies, cognitive strategies and social/ affective strategies, which are advocated by O'Malley & Chamot, the author of this thesis has conducted an empirical research with the attempt to find out students'attitude and effect of applying listening strategies and how teachers use listening strategies to guide junior high school English teaching. The result of the empirical research shows that junior high school students do employ some listening comprehension strategies to help improve their listening comprehension ability although they themselves don't know much of listening comprehension strategies or seldom use most of the strategies. Besides, the result also indicates that different students employ different listening strategies and that the frequency of the students' use of listening strategy has significant effect on the outcome of their listening tests.Based on the empirical research above, the author makes further research on how to employ listening strategies to guide junior high school English listening teaching and presents some suggestions from three angles, namely meta-cognition, cognition and society/affection, to improve the teaching of English listening in junior high school. For example, in the daily classroom teaching, teachers should strengthen the guidance to the students'learning strategies and pay attention to applying the learning strategies to guiding classroom teaching so as to promote the students'listening comprehension ability and improve the teaching of English listening in junior high school.