摘要
如何提高大学生的英语听说能力是长期困扰着中国大学英语教师的一个问题。基于教学实验,在学生中间进行的调查,以及80%学生在全国大学英语四级考试听力部分所获得的比平行班级高的分数,40%的学生通过全国英语等级3级口语考试(其他班级通常只有10%的通过率);并且,有9名同学在全国大学生英语竞赛中获奖,其中特等奖1名,一等奖1名,二等奖3名,三等奖4名等事实,本文力图在前半部分揭示学生在听力理解中最可能遇到的障碍,讨论在课堂上教师应该采用哪些有效的步骤与方法,并在后半部分建议把一些听力后阶段的练习转变为口语练习活动,同时介绍了在本校期末考试中的口语考试及其所占的分数比例。说明只有重视了上述因素,并在课堂上采用有效的步骤与方法,教师才能有希望帮助学生提高他们的听说能力。
How to improve students' listening and speaking competence has long been a problem puzzling teachers of college English in China. Based on teaching experiments, investigations among students and the results that 80% of students have scored high in the listening part of CET4 (College English Test Band 4),40% of students passed the Spoken English Test of PETS (Public English Test System) and one student won the special prize in the National English Contest for College Students, another student the 1st prize, 3 students the 2nd and 4 students the 3rd prize, this paper intends to reveal (in the former part) the potential obstacles that may hinder students from understanding a listening text, to discuss what procedures and techniques that a teacher should adopt in class, and to suggest (in the latter part) some post-listening activities that can be turned into oral practice and introduce the oral assessment in the terminal exams. This research concludes that only by taking these factors into consideration and adopting effective procedures and techniques in class, can a teacher expect to help students improve their listening and speaking competence.
关键词
听
说
能力
方法
交际
listening
speaking
competence
techniques
communication
