摘要
Listening skill plays an important role not only for communication but also for learning language through comprehensible input. Apart of that, listening is also a very complex process. College students in China always face difficulties in mastering skillfully about this process, that is to say, they cannot identify the key words they are listening during their communication because they are trying to understand every single word, and they cannot recognize the intended meaning of the key word. The listening material for college students provides them to be familiar with proficiency test, like International English Language Testing System (IELTS) Test. From this aspect, this research was expected to help the college students to be more familiar with of IELST Listening Test. This research took the form of Research and Development (R&D) model. It is aimed to design a new product of listening material based on IELTS Test for students of English Department, Nanchang Business College (NCBC). The procedures of this research involved identification of required analysis, writing the course grid, listening to material production, evaluation of material, first draft revising of material, and writing its final draft. The findings showed that among 28 students, 57% of them need mostly the audio recording of a conversation between two people proceed in an everyday social situation. 89% of students need to hear a monologue set in an everyday social situation. 70% of them need audio recording of a conversation between four people proceed in an educational or training context. And 96% of students’ need audio recording about monologue on an academic subject. As for the question types, 54% of students need multiple choice, 93% need answering short questions, 71% sentence completion, 96% notes/chart/table completion, 100% labeling diagram, 89% classification, and 93% matching. It was successful in increasing college students’ interests in English listening skill.
