浅谈如何提高农村中学生的英语听力

题目（英文） How to Improve Listening Comprehensive Ability of students in Rural Middle School 

题目（中文）    浅谈如何提高农村中学生的英语听力    

Abstract

Listening is an important aspect of English learning and teaching. However, for students in rural middle schools, English listening classes are supposed to be very challenging because there are many obstacles in their listening comprehension. At present students’ principal obstacles that affect listening include: weak pronunciation recognition ability, limited vocabulary, poor understanding of grammar rule, lack of background knowledge, and so on. Thus it is essential to devote exclusively to the studying of how to improve listening comprehensive ability of rural students.

The thesis is divided into six parts. The first part is a brief introduction. The purpose and significance of the study are also proposed in this part. The second part defines the concept of listening comprehension, and emphasizes the importance of improving English listening comprehensive ability. In the third part, the English listening comprehensive ability of students of rural middle schools is investigated, and the obstacles in listening are found. The fourth part analyzes the principal listening obstacles and reasons behind them. The fifth part mainly provides some approaches to improving listening comprehensive ability. The last part draws the conclusion. It also points out some limitations of this study, and puts forward some prospects for future research.

It is expected that those suggestions above can provide some help for the English teachers who work in rural middle schools. Thus, students would achieve some significant progress in their English listening comprehensive ability, and increase their interests of learning English finally.

Keywords　English listening teaching; Rural middle school; 

Contents

Abstract I

Contents I

1. Introduction 1

2. Research background 2

2.1 Definition of listening comprehension 2

2.2 The importance of improving rural middle school student’s English listening comprehensive ability 2

2.2.1 Listening comprehensive ability is the foundation of English learning 2

2.2.2 The nonage is the most critical stage in learning English, so rural middle school should pay particular attention to teaching listening 3

3. Study on listening comprehensive ability of rural students 4

4. The main obstacles and reasons of rural middle school students' listening comprehensive ability 6

4.1 Backward conditions in teaching English 6

4.2 Lack of courage to speak English in class or daily oral practice 6

4.3 The lack of advanced teaching approaches 6

4.4 The lack of language environment and internal motivation 7

5. The effective approaches of improving rural middle school students' listening comprehensive ability 8

5.1 Cultivating interest in English 8

5.2 Paying attention to practice and laying solid foundation of English 8

5.3 Preparing English extracurricular reading activities 9

5.4 Developing appropriate listening habits 9

5.5 Enhancing good psychological quality 10

6. Conclusion 11

References 12