On A Factor Influencing English Listening Teaching and learning

Abstract: This essay is mainly about a factor influencing English listening teaching and learning, inappropriate learning habits to help teachers and students in the improvement of listening comprehension.

Key words: English listening teaching and learning; habits of learning;

In recent years, listening teaching and learning is spread. It strengthens the demand for listening. Teachers and students are all aware of the unavailable of “deaf-mute English”. But the level of English teaching and learning is not improved with cognition. They feel the level of every learner of English listening is irregular. There is an important factor influencing English listening teaching and learning.

Inappropriate learning habits

The famous educationist of China Ye Shengtao once said: “What is education? In a word, we should form a habit.” Good learning habit can make students accelerate the process of learning, improve effect of learning. It is like a catalyst. But some students do not have a good habit in the process of listening. The level of listening will not be improving.

1 Without the habit of writing, drawing, speaking, counting and guessing while listening

The process of listening is not independent. In the process, students should learn to use ears, eyes, mouth, hands and heart. When listening, they can record some key words and key data, speak on the basis of understanding, act as the information, train operation and skills of thinking, express the information by drawing, guess some unknown words and predict the back information. If students do not have the habit, they will take one into consideration to the neglect of the other.

2 Not combining intensive listening with extensive listening.

Intensive listening, which demand students not only to understand meaning of passage, but also to understand every word and sentence. Students should listen several times, analysize the passage and every sentence, or have a dictation word by word, sentence by sentence. The key is to understand meanings of sentences. Extensive listening is different from intensive listening. The key is to grasp the main meaning. Intensive listening is the basic training. Extensive listening is to strengthen and extend the effect of intensive listening. One is a trick, the other is a purpose. Some students do not do well in combining the two aspects. They do not contact with all kinds of material of listening, such as listening to English songs, watching original edition of films, listening to English radio and joining in the “Corner of English”. They all influence improvement of English listening.