Barriers and Strategies in Listening Comprehension for College Students
Barriers and Strategies in Listening Comprehension for College Students
Abstract: Listening is an important skill for language learners. Many college students have difficulty in listening tasks. This paper tries to probe for the reason and propose solutions
Key Words: Listening Barrier Strategy 1. Introduction With the development of society and the trend towards globalization, Chinese society and all kinds of profession fields demand that human resources are proficient in English. Listening is an important skill for language learners. It plays vital roles in daily communication. As is known to all, real communication involves two language skills: speaking and listening, they are closely related to each other. Speaking is the beginning of the comprehension and is regarded as the production of language while listening is the comprehension of the produced language. Without listening, communication can’t be maintained. However, many college students have little enthusiasm for listening tasks. They feel so difficult to improve their listening comprehension proficiency. Sometimes, they do a lot but achieve little. Considering the above reasons, this paper try to probe into the barriers and problems of listening comprehension for college students and they try to propose some strategies to overcome these problems. 2. Problem and Drawback of the Listening Comprehension 2.1 The Emerging of the Problem Up to now, the traditional English teaching in China has mainly focused on the teaching of reading and writing, and neglected to cultivate the students' ability of listening and speaking, especially in college English teaching. In many colleges and universities, listening teaching submits to intensive reading, the rate of listening course only takes up a small portion of time in the whole curriculum. For example, in our university, the rate of reading and listening in class time is 3:1, namely, we spend about 3 hours on intensive reading each
Abstract: Listening is an important skill for language learners. Many college students have difficulty in listening tasks. This paper tries to probe for the reason and propose solutions
Key Words: Listening Barrier Strategy 1. Introduction With the development of society and the trend towards globalization, Chinese society and all kinds of profession fields demand that human resources are proficient in English. Listening is an important skill for language learners. It plays vital roles in daily communication. As is known to all, real communication involves two language skills: speaking and listening, they are closely related to each other. Speaking is the beginning of the comprehension and is regarded as the production of language while listening is the comprehension of the produced language. Without listening, communication can’t be maintained. However, many college students have little enthusiasm for listening tasks. They feel so difficult to improve their listening comprehension proficiency. Sometimes, they do a lot but achieve little. Considering the above reasons, this paper try to probe into the barriers and problems of listening comprehension for college students and they try to propose some strategies to overcome these problems. 2. Problem and Drawback of the Listening Comprehension 2.1 The Emerging of the Problem Up to now, the traditional English teaching in China has mainly focused on the teaching of reading and writing, and neglected to cultivate the students' ability of listening and speaking, especially in college English teaching. In many colleges and universities, listening teaching submits to intensive reading, the rate of listening course only takes up a small portion of time in the whole curriculum. For example, in our university, the rate of reading and listening in class time is 3:1, namely, we spend about 3 hours on intensive reading each