On Promoting Listening Comprehension of English Majors through Original English Movies

In recent years,with the reform of College English Teaching in China,listening has occupied a great proportion of both the examination content and classroom teaching.When everyone is seeking a high-efficiency,fast teaching method,the use of English original film teaching methods arises spontaneously.Its authentic speaking style,real language environment and rich cultural connotation not only improve the listening comprehension ability of English majors,but also enable students to intuitively understand the culture of Western countries.In this study,by referring to a large number of books and documents,this paper puts forward corresponding strategies for various problems arising from the use of English original film teaching in colleges and universities.English original film teaching can not only create a better learning environment,and stimulate students’interest in learning,but also enable students to actively participate in class discussions.

On the Application of Cognitive Strategy in College English Listening Comprehension——With International Talents Training as the Goal

This paper, with the training of the international talents possessing remarkable English listening and speaking ability,mainly discusses the specific application of the cognitive strategy in different stages of college English listening comprehension.It is expected that the paper can bring some useful enlightenments on the international talents training.

The Effectiveness of Top-Down and Bottom-Up Process in Listening Comprehension

Top-down and bottom-up processes are two popularly-used method in teaching listening,but each of them has deficiencies.This essay will attempt to demonstrate that both top-down process and bottom-up process are necessarily useful,and adopting them appropriately conduce to effective and efficient listening comprehension.The first section of this paper will critically examine the advantages and disadvantages of the two processes.It will then illustrate the benefit of employing them in an interactive way.

The Effect of Topic Familiarity and Linguistic Difficulty on EFL Listening Comprehension

As a highly integrative and demanding receptive skill,listening comprehension presents a challenge to both learners and researchers.The study reported in this paper is listening comprehension objective-factor research.Manipulating topic factors,the study investigated the effect of topic familiarity and linguistic difficulty on EFL(English as a foreign language)listening comprehension of learners at different proficiency levels.

The Effect of Dictation Practice on Listening Comprehension of Non-English Major Undergraduates

This paper aims to explore the effectiveness of dictation practice in improving non-English major undergraduates listening comprehension.35 students were selected into the experiment.For the comparison of the experimental data,we found that students'listening comprehension do improved after 12 weeks training while some other implications also were discussed for further study in order to promote listening teaching and learning.

An Analysis of TOEFL Listening Comprehension

TOEFL(Test of English as a Foreign Language)is regarded as astandardized test of English proficiency. TOEFL consists of four sections.Listening Comprehension Section has threeparts,which give you an opportunity to demonstrate your ability to under-stand spoken English.

An Effective Online Collaborative Training in Developing Listening Comprehension Skills

The COVID-19 outbreak severely affected formal face-to-face classroom teaching and learning.ICT-based online education and training can be a useful measure during the pandemic.In the Pakistani educational context,the use of ICT-based online training is generally sporadic and often unavailable,especially for developing English-language instructors’listening comprehension skills.The major factors affecting availability include insufficient IT resources and infrastructure,a lack of proper online training for speech and listening,instructors with inadequate academic backgrounds,and an unfavorable environment for ICT-based training for listening comprehension.This study evaluated the effectiveness of ICT-based training for developing secondary-level English-language instructors’listening comprehension skills.To this end,collaborative online training was undertaken using random sampling.Specifically,60 private-school instructors in Chakwal District,Pakistan,were randomly selected to receive online-listening training sessions using English dialogs.The experimental group achieved significant scores in the posttest analysis.Specifically,there were substantial improvements in the participants’listening skills via online training.Given the unavailability of face-to-face learning during COVID-19,this study recommends using ICT-based online training to enhance listening comprehension skills.Education policymakers should revise curricula based on online teaching methods and modules.

Exploration of Students’Anxiety on English Listening Comprehension

Anxiety,as an emotional experience,has been paid more and more attention by linguists.It is an affective variable affecting second language acquisition,and has an impact on listening,speaking,reading and writing skills.Because Chinese students attach too much importance to grammar and neglect the improvement of oral listening skills,a large number of students have negative emotions of anxiety in the process of listening comprehension,which in turn plays a negative role in listening comprehension and affects students’learning interest and initiative.On the basis of understanding the problems existing in students’English listening comprehension,this paper analyses the causes of anxiety in the process of listening comprehension and puts forward some corresponding countermeasures.

Literature Review of Strategy Approach to Listening Comprehension

This article demonstrates a literature review of the strategy approach to listening comprehension. The article is to raise the awareness of listening strategy so as to further the research of ESL/EFL listening strategy and enhance the students' communicative competence.

Improving non-English majors' listening comprehension through strategy training

Listening is an important part in the second language learning process,so how to improve students’ listening comprehension especially for non-English majors becomes a main concern to teachers.For this purpose,a targeted listening strategy training was conducted in listening classes.Test results manifest that sixty participants get more or less improvement in their listening comprehension after receiving a strategy training every two hours over ten weeks.Low and middle achievers make relatively more progress than high-achievers.Interviews also indicate that high achievers use top-down strategies more than low achievers in listening process,while low achievers employ more bottom-up strategies than high achievers.This indicates that effective strategy training in listening class could enhance students’ listening performance.It is hoped that this study could give some insights to the future listening teaching.

Psycholinguistic Analysis of the Semantic Meaning of Sentences in Listening Comprehension and Its Implications

Listening comprehension is an important part in English teaching,and it is also an important research theme in second language acquisition(SLA).Through the application of psycholinguistic research results,this paper attempts to explore the process of comprehending semantic meaning of sentences in listening comprehension,thus providing solutions to improve listening skills.

USING LEARNING STRATEGIES TO DEVELOP LISTENING COMPREHENSION—A CASE STUDY

By adopting the research method of case study, this article studies the learning strategies of an adult learner of English in listening comprehension. It is found that the learner can use some learning strategies but only at very elementary level. After an eight-week training course in learning strategies, the learner made noticeable progress in listening, which proves that learning strategies can be trained and contribute positively to language proficiency.

LISTENING COMPREHENSION: MORE THAN JUST COMPREHENSIBLE INPUT

In the ten years since the publication of Krashen’s theory on second language acquisition (SLA), the role of comprehensible input (CI) in the learning/acquiring of a language has received considerable attention (Krashen, 1982, 1985; Ellis, 1991, 1992; Long, 1983, 1985). As a result of these studies researchers now agree on the following points. Exposure to a language does not lead to acquisition; the personal accounts of so many language learners who have spent many years in a country or who have listened to endless hours of radio and television without being able to understand or speak the language attest to this fact.

THE INFLUENCE OF NON-VERBAL BARRIERS TO ENGLISH LISTENING COMPREHENSION

This paper explains,with concrete examples,that the non-verbal barriers also obstruct students’correct understanding of listening materials,and ana-lyzes the problems resulting from students lack of cul-tural knowledge of the target language.Suggestionsare offered to help students have a better understand-ing by introducing the origin of English words,intro-ducing the cultural traits of native speakers,theircustoms and introduce the relative cultural knowledgeto promote students’comprehension of the target lan-guage.

IMPROVING LISTENING COMPREHENSION

Research indicates that the factors which influence students’ listening comprehension include certain phonetic phenomena,such as weak forms, linking, elision, assimilation, rhythm and intonation. This paper puts forward some suggestions for ensuring that phonetics classes are of practical use in the development of listening comprehension.

Analysis of Application of Relevance Theory in Listening Long Dialogues--Taking Long Dialogues in CET-4 Listening as Examples

Long dialogue listening is an important part of listening testin CET-4.Thispaper discussesthe explanatory power of Relevance Theory in the process of solving 16 listening long dialoguesin CET-4 listening testthrough quantitative and qualitative analysis.It adopts Relevance Theory to predict the context and listening problemsduring the pre-listening process.Then it uses Relevance Theory to analyze the turn-taking in conversationand understand the content of the long dialogues during the while-listening process.The application of Relevance Theory to CET-4 listening comprehension provides us with new inspiration for improving listening comprehension and listening teaching.

A Study of Listening Teaching Methods in High School English Curriculum

Listening is the prerequisite and foundation of four language skills—listening, speaking, reading and writing. It is very important in high school English learning. But teachers or students seldom focus listening in English curriculum. This thesis analyzes the problems of English listening process and puts forward effective teaching methods to improve students' listening comprehension ability.

The Application of Metacognitive Strategies in Senior High School Listening Teaching

The metacognitive strategies play a very important role in high school English listening teaching.The article discussesthe use of metacognitive strategies in listening teaching,and put forward the necessity and feasibility of combining metacognitivestrategies training with task-based listening activities.

Teaching Aural Comprehension to Inexperienced Listeners

Listening comprehension,a long-neglected area in English language teaching,was not taught as a separate course in our schools until the early 1980s.“Yet ithas been estimated that of the time adults spend in communication activities 45per cent is devoted to listening,only 30 per cent to speaking,16 per cent to read-ing,and a mere 9 per cent to writing.”Listening can and ought to be taughtapart from speaking;it has its peculiar problems.There’s just as much activity

The Study of Thematic Progression Patterns in TEM8 News Discourse

This paper studies thematic progression patterns of 20 news items in TEM8 based on the theories of theme and rheme.The use frequencies of three thematic progression patterns are calculated and analyzed to propose some implications on improving listening comprehension.