HowtoImproveJuniorHighSchoolStudents’ListeningAbilityinEnglishTeaching

毕业论文1.IntroductionListening,speaking,reading and writing are the four basic skills that Englishlearners in junior high school should develop.And listening ranks first among thesefour skills.Rivers investigates that listening contributes 45%of the actual situation oflanguage application.Obviously it is an important means of communication and animportant channel of knowledge and information acquisition.The improvement ofjunior high school students'listening ability is very helpful to the development oftheir abilities of speaking,reading and writing.Therefore,great importance should beattached to the improvement of students'listening ability in English teaching in juniorhigh school.However,the training of listening has not been placed in its proper position intraditional teaching for a long time and hence listening has long been a weak point.Many students think that listening is one of the most difficult things in English study,and even some of them have difficulty in understanding what their teachers teach inEnglish.As the development of students'listening ability has become the demand ofmiddle school's New English Curriculum Standard,nowadays the training of listeninghas drawn unprecedented attention than before.How to increase the students'abilityin listening and how to improve students'listening comprehension in the examinationhas been the common concern of many English teachers'.Based on schema theory,this thesis tries to probe into junior high schoolstudents'problems into listening and to seek solutions for these problems so as toimprove their listening ability.2