1. An analysis of the causes of listening loss of English words in senior high schools.
1. The pronunciation is not standard.
If our pronunciation is exactly the same as that of foreigners, and you can understand your own pronunciation, you will certainly understand the pronunciation of foreigners. Pure English pronunciation is usually "confident" pronunciation, but most people in China only pronounce it with their mouths, and the words they say taste very different. Therefore, we still need to find a pure English tape, imitate it again and again, and train 1-2 hours a day. In two to three weeks, you will find that the sound conditions have changed obviously. When you are familiar with its pronunciation, listening is a piece of cake for you.
2. Too little vocabulary and lack of experience
Sometimes we can hear clearly, but either we can't distinguish the meanings of words quickly, or we don't know what they mean at all. The reason is actually that the words are not skilled or the vocabulary is too small. The memory of words is not in place, so when we see or hear words, we can only guess the general meaning vaguely, but we can't understand them accurately and bring them into the original text, which directly affects the speed and accuracy of our problems. It has a direct impact on listening performance. Therefore, when memorizing words, we must try to repeat the memory for a short time, so as to ensure proficiency, so as to practice listening to high school English words without thinking.
3. Interference between accent and dialect
First of all, there are many English-speaking countries, such as the United States, Britain, Australia, Canada and so on. Their accents are all different. Secondly, there are different dialects in different parts of the same country. If you want to understand English, you should listen extensively on the basis of intensive listening, and listen to various accents and dialects, and you will get used to it for a while. Only in this way can we ensure that it is easier to distinguish when listening, and we can concentrate on listening to key information after eliminating all kinds of interference, which is of great help to the improvement of listening.
I don't know the linking and abbreviation.
Some single words in the sentence are not exactly the same as their pronunciations because of the influence of other words' pronunciations, which brings difficulties to our listening. This is actually the usual disyllabic and abbreviated sounds in spoken English, which belongs to a language habit. There is only one way to solve this problem, that is, to understand the knowledge and rules of pronunciation and practice more sentences with two tones and abbreviations. In the long run, you will naturally use them, understand them, and meet them in the listening test will naturally be no longer a problem.
5. Lack of self-confidence
Lack of confidence often leads to nervous voice discrimination, and as a result, what can be understood is not understood; In addition, lack of confidence will lead to depression, which will lead to the inability to concentrate on the listening materials themselves. Therefore, in listening training, on the one hand, you should learn to see your little progress, encourage more, don't be too hasty, and remember that you can't eat hot tofu if you are impatient; On the other hand, do more English practice activities to get a sense of accomplishment, such as chatting with foreigners, preparing carefully, participating in oral English competitions, and inspiring their self-confidence. As long as you work hard enough, you will have the motivation to continue practicing and the effect will be better.
2. How to improve English listening in senior high school?
First, develop correct pronunciation habits.
Whether your pronunciation is correct or not directly determines whether you can correctly judge which word means what. Therefore, students must strictly demand their correct pronunciation, and at the same time correctly distinguish word stress from weak reading, sonic boom and continuous reading habits. Only by mastering correct pronunciation skills can we avoid missing every keyword or sentence and improve our listening comprehension.
Second, practice reading and listening at the same time.
Many people spend all their time on listening materials to improve their listening comprehension. I'm sure it was a mistake. We don't live in a foreign country, no matter how you create it, there can't be a real foreign cultural atmosphere around you, which has shown that it is wrong to pay attention to a single listening practice. What knowledge will be involved in our senior high school English listening? This knowledge includes words, grammar, idioms, culture, and everything you can encounter when you come into contact with materials. When you hear this information, are you confident to understand it? In fact, most people can't do it, so what I want to tell you is that vocabulary and grammar are the key to reading. Reading and reading ability determine the level of listening and speaking ability. We must learn a language by listening and speaking.
Third, the specific ways to improve senior high school listening ability
1, select the appropriate material.
You must know your listening level, so the materials you choose should have appropriate difficulty. Materials with appropriate difficulty can make us walk out of our comfort zone, and we can make rapid progress by spending time and energy on them in order to make ourselves understand. Moreover, in the process of learning, we can adjust the listening speed according to our own level to make it slightly higher than our own level. This kind of learning is the most effective. Generally speaking, English listening in senior high school is not very difficult, and it is easy to improve under the premise of mastering the methods.
2. Keep listening while ensuring the quantity.
There is no doubt that language is a skill. Listening more can improve your comprehension. Before listening reaches a higher level, it may be strange if your ears don't touch English one day, and it will be boring if you don't listen for a week! So anyway, you must listen to one thing every day. What you hear can be repeated. For example, you can listen to the same thing for three days, but you must listen to it every day.
3. Pay attention to the theme of the listening materials.
The theme of listening materials is to suggest that you don't listen to all kinds of things every day. Listen to the news today, watch American TV shows tomorrow and listen to the dialogue the day after tomorrow, but listen to the materials in a narrow range. This is because in a narrow range, the repetition frequency of similar language materials will increase, and the higher the repetition frequency, the higher the speed and efficiency of natural mastery. So when you choose materials, you can choose to listen to the listening materials on the same topic first.
It is very important to strengthen listening training.
It is not that extensive reading is not good, but that its efficiency is far lower than intensive listening practice. Many students want to watch English movies in high school to improve their English listening. But in fact this effect is not good. Can't improve listening quickly. We must pay attention to it every day. What should we listen to? You must listen to the main points, details and logic Only when you hear a short passage, and only after listening to it several times, can you really understand it. A good test is whether you can report in Chinese and how you can really understand it. At the same time, listening will force you to increase the number of times you listen and naturally increase the frequency of repetition.
3. Introduction of English listening practice skills
Step 1: Don't read the written materials, just listen to the recording.
The purpose is to grasp the general idea. If you have a certain foundation, you can understand it more or less after listening to it several times. It's natural to have something you don't understand, so don't lose heart, because we are learning after all. But when you listen, you must concentrate on it, and don't be distracted, or you will listen in vain.
Step 2: Read the written materials and listen to the tape.
The purpose of this step is to deepen the understanding of the material, and the second is to correct pronunciation and cultivate the subconscious mind of English language sense. Can be repeated many times.
Step 3: Forget the written materials and listen again.
At this time, you are familiar with the content of the material, but you still have problems understanding individual words and sentences. But it doesn't matter, listen again and again until you have a thorough understanding of the meaning and pronunciation of every sentence and even every word. You can better appreciate and understand the speaker's phonetic features, which shows that you are making progress and can safely enter the next step.
Step 4: Listen and read the surface materials.
This step is very important, which can not only consolidate understanding, but also train reaction speed (at least try to read as fast as recording); Practice listening and tongue flexibility. The ideal state of this step is to imitate the speaker's various intonations as much as possible: cadence, ups and downs, sometimes soothing like a quiet night, sometimes rushing like a gallop, sometimes thunderous, unpredictable and exciting. Of course, these realms are not required to be achieved at once. It is a wonderful success to simulate a part or a few words first. As the number of subsequent readings increases, your simulation ability will be greatly enhanced.
Step 5: Leave written materials and read while listening.
Obviously, this step is more difficult than the previous one. However, after going through the first four steps, you can finish it well with a little training. You can read the whole article, or use the pause key or repeat key to read one sentence at a time. When you come across a difficult word, you will stop and train it several times to get rid of obstacles, and then you will read the whole article until you understand the charm of every sentence and word. At this time, you will experience a superb feeling, not just a general sense of accomplishment.
Step 6: The last step
It is also the happiest and proudest step for you, that is, on the basis of repeated training in the first five steps, completely abandon the text, play a recording, and then repeat the content loudly as if you were making a speech. You can imitate repetition invariably first, and then change words and sentence patterns flexibly.