Improving listening is not only conducive to the development of listening, speaking, reading and writing skills, but also lays a solid foundation for daily communication. But for students, listening is often the most difficult. Traditional teaching has long attached great importance to reading and writing training, but neglected the cultivation of listening and speaking ability. Students' cultural foundation and psychological state also affect listening development, and the lack of language environment also makes students' listening ability relatively weak. How to change this situation and let China students say goodbye to the current learning situation of "dumb English" is an important topic for our teachers. Teachers play a great role in the initial stage of students' English learning. After several years of teaching, I have the following thoughts:

First, listening teaching is to cultivate students' ability to acquire and understand information.

Linguistic research shows that speaking ability and listening ability are inseparable. Only by understanding first can we express clearly, which can be seen more clearly from children's language learning. Children's babbling is to listen carefully before they can imitate. Even the simplest "mother" finally spoke after listening to her parents' repeated training. Psychological research also shows that listening is a psychological process of actively identifying and processing information; It is an active explanation, not a passive perception, not a simple acoustic fact. This process seems simple and can be completed in an instant, but in fact it is a complex process from initial perception to complete understanding of language flow, which requires the listener to constantly identify, compare, remember and judge. In order to complete this series of complex psychological processes well, students must master the necessary skills in addition to a good language foundation. Students need to guess the plot of the content and what they didn't hear clearly, find the general idea of the content and grasp the key details. These skills require teachers to train gradually and imperceptibly in English listening teaching, thus helping students improve their listening.

How to help students improve their English listening ability? First of all, let students get interested in listening practice and overcome their fears. American psychologist Rogers said: "Successful teaching depends on the relationship of sincerity, understanding and trust between teachers and students, and the classroom atmosphere full of psychological security." According to the psychological theory of foreign language education, a person's listening comprehension ability is closely related to his psychological quality. In life, students are always in the language environment of Chinese. Pupils are not adapted to the English language environment. In listening training, students should listen clearly, understand fleeting language materials, make clear the meaning of language, and make correct judgments to answer questions. Once there are unanswerable questions, students will have a heavy psychological burden and become in a hurry. As a result, they often don't understand even the simplest words. Therefore, in the usual listening training, teachers should pay attention to students' psychological changes, create a relaxed classroom atmosphere, and avoid making students feel disgusted or even contradictory. Teachers should cultivate and stimulate students' interest in listening. In my teaching, I use multimedia to teach words and sentences and mobilize students' multiple senses to learn, instead of doing mechanical exercises. Conduct dialogue and performance activities in class, design reasonable actions, and mobilize students' learning enthusiasm. In the Oxford textbook, each unit is a story picture with a plot, so I asked the students to form a group to imitate and dub listening and speaking games.

Of course, students' English learning process is mainly carried out in the classroom. In order to improve students' listening ability, teachers must adhere to the dominant position of classroom teaching, attach importance to conventional teaching, create a good classroom English language environment, adopt colorful classroom teaching methods, improve classroom teaching art, and insist on teaching in English, so as to effectively implement the basic knowledge of language. Teachers themselves should have good language quality, master authentic and fluent oral English expressions, let students immerse themselves in the ocean of English in their daily classes, and gradually master sentence reading skills such as linking, rereading and losing, so as to achieve proficient application and expand students' language input. Modern language teaching theory holds that the greater the language input, the higher the language output. When the input reaches a certain amount, students' language ability will change qualitatively. For primary school students who lack natural English environment, the usual classroom teaching is the main way of language input. Therefore, teachers' insistence on teaching in English can directly help students practice listening. Reading aloud often is also an effective way to improve listening. The strength of listening depends on a person's correct and skilled pronunciation. Correct English pronunciation, beautiful and fluent intonation, and mastery of rhythm all depend on hard work and hard practice. In the process of reading aloud, students should first pay attention to imitating correct and beautiful language materials, listen to more recordings, try to create a listening environment, imitate more, read aloud repeatedly, and understand the speaker's emotions. Secondly, on the basis of reading aloud, recite more. Finally, you can respond to everyday expressions fluently and blurt out wonderful conversations, then you can understand them and your listening level will be improved accordingly. In teaching, we should pay attention to the practice of students' text reading, and ask students to mark the marks such as paying attention to pronunciation and weak reading in the text, and imitate the reading in the recording vividly according to the marks.

Second, the ultimate goal of English learning is to communicate in English.

In addition to teaching in English in class, I also encourage teachers and students to have simple English conversations anytime and anywhere after class, forming a strong extracurricular English atmosphere. You can simply say "Hello. /hi. /Nice to meet you. /Hello? " Wait a minute. With the deepening of study, it becomes "What are you doing? Please come and help me. " For the sixth grade students, I often put forward different topics to let them speak freely. Gradually, students are no longer ashamed to speak English, but can boldly express their ideas in English. At the same time, students' English listening ability is gradually improved. Finally, proper listening practice can strengthen training and improve listening. Supporting English listening practice is a necessary measure to cultivate students' listening. The practice of each unit should be synchronized with the text teaching. Teachers should give students corresponding guidance when completing exercises to help them master the correct methods and overcome listening difficulties.

In the process of teaching practice for many years, I gradually found that students' English listening and speaking ability is gradually improving and their interest is growing.