4 To 5 Years Old Children’s Listening Behavior Research

The definition listen which is defined by the International Association of Listening is to accept verbal and nonverbal information, determine its meaning and react to this process. The meaning of preschool children’s listening in this study is that children’s bodies and sense organ give the corresponding reactive behaviors for the listening and talking when people are talking.Listening is an important behavior in preschool children’s daily life. It plays an important role for the children’s social development and growth. Listening is one of the earliest activities for children to acquire languages. Children’s languages development is closely inseparable with good listening habit. It will influence the development of children’s reading, writing and speaking. So developing good listening habit for children is the premise of acquiring knowledge. Through observation of children’s listening behavior found that children aged 4 to 5 exist behavior problem, which is that they do not have good habits. So correcting and guiding their bad listening behavior is imperative. Children’s listening problem is also the problem which parents and teachers are concerned. This research chooses children’s aged 4 to 5 listening behavior problem as the subject of the graduation thesis, and it based on the high practice and solve the existing problems.The research was completed by means of observation and survey to 4 to 5 years’ children’s listening behaviors. And it mainly observed current situation of children’s listening, and made surveys to teachers’ understanding of infant listening. Observation mainly takes samples to record children’s listening behavior. Survey includes questionnaire and interview, which are based on teachers’ understanding and intervening strategies of children’s listening. This research found that children clearly have problems in listening behaviors. Teachers lack understanding in children’s listening, so they don’t intervene children’s bad listening behavior that they should correct and guide. The study analyzes the reasons of children’s bad listening behavior, and puts forward relevant suggestions. At last, this paper makes reflections and expectations to the matter, and summarizes the issue of infant listening behaviors.