An Overview of College English Listening Skills
Imitate voice strategy:
The difficulty in listening is mainly caused by the mismatch between the shapes and sounds of words in the mind. If your pronunciation is not consistent with the pronunciation in the recording material, even if you know the word, it is hard to hear it. At normal speech speed, the pronunciation of many words is alienated. Common alienation includes link and loss blasting. Linking refers to the pronunciation changes that occur when words ending in consonants are adjacent to words beginning with vowels. For example, the pronunciation of feel it will become /fi:lit/. The loss of plosive sound refers to when the ending sound of the current word and the first sound of the next word are B, P, D, T, K, etc. The ending sound of the previous word blocked the airflow inside, but it didn't explode, and directly issued the first sound of the next word. Good night sounds like /gu'nait/. In addition, there are phenomena such as weak reading (that is, words that are not important or have no specific meaning are pronounced lightly).
Digital practice strategy:
Slow response to numbers is generally caused by insufficient practice. In addition to the special exercises about numbers, we should also sum up some problems of numbers. There are several common forms of numerical problems: one is number as quantity, such as number, quantity, time and so on. Because the number expression in English is different from that in Chinese, the number heard in English needs to be quickly converted, for example, from 10 thousand to 10000. Secondly, the number of telephone numbers. English telephone numbers usually have a pause after reading the first three digits, such as 65342 10 to 653-42 10. There is also a house number. Usually not. Or the front room. If you have outstanding problems in listening to numbers, you'd better find some numbers and do special exercises.
Sentence structure practice strategies:
Most of the cases where sentences can't be responded or long sentences can't be understood are caused by ignorance of spoken sentence patterns. In this regard, when practicing listening, pay more attention to the common sentence patterns in listening materials and write them down. Listen to the sentences you can't respond to and find out the structure of the sentences. You can improve your ability to listen to sentences step by step.
Cultural knowledge strategy:
Place names, names or other proper nouns all have rich cultural connotations. Only by strengthening the understanding of culture can we quickly reflect these contents. Therefore, we must accumulate more cultural knowledge in the following aspects: common English names, spelling rules of names, common place names, names of important cities, names of historical dynasties, names of important leaders or politicians, names of major political, cultural and historical events, etc. With this background knowledge, the burden of speech processing can be reduced, and even if you only hear a rough idea, you can guess what it is.
How to improve English listening
To improve listening, we must first improve the reading foundation (including vocabulary and grammar foundation). The better your reading foundation is, the more things you can understand, and the smoother your listening will be. Try to understand what you can read and choose appropriate listening materials according to your actual level (which can be roughly equivalent to your vocabulary level).
Primary intensive listening
Our practice goal is to understand words, phrases, short sentences, pay attention to pronunciation, learn stress, weak reading and so on. Listen to sentences or clauses by dictation, understand everything, and write them down to the point of punctuation.
Advanced intensive listening
We still use the method of dictation, and listen to it many times in units of multiple sentences, but we must listen to it many times, gradually increasing from one sentence to two or three sentences. We keep practicing until we listen to it three times and write down six sentences or 30 seconds.
Fusion of listening comprehension
At this time, focus on understanding the meaning of the sentence, and the difficulty of selecting materials should be moderate. Some places you don't understand need to stop and dictate, so that you can understand the relationship between the previous paragraph and the previous sentence after listening to the whole article.
Try oral translation.
Adjust the speed of listening materials, adjust the materials you can understand to 1.2 times or even 1.5 times, continue to listen attentively and learn to take notes;
Listen widely.
Extensive reading should be placed after intensive listening as a supplement to intensive listening. Listening extensively is to broaden your knowledge. At this time, there is no need to listen carefully to every sentence, as long as you understand the meaning roughly.
English listening skills and methods
1, widely listened to
Just starting to practice listening, you can give priority to listening more. In addition to classroom teaching, I also try to use the "subtle" English learning method. At home, parents can let their children make full use of all their spare time to learn English. For example, when children get up, at breakfast, after dinner, in the shower, before going to bed, etc., they can play English recordings or songs and listen to them repeatedly and at will. Students are gradually familiar with the content, and their ears are naturally used to listening to English. Given the natural English environment that children lack most, children will naturally become interested in English and the learning effect will be very obvious.
2. Listening and pronunciation complement each other
With the foundation of extensive listening, we should further consider how to improve the quality of listening. In the actual teaching process, I found that the most difficult phonetic symbols for students to grasp are usually linking and pausing. Often students can understand some words, but when they put them in sentences and integrate them into the text, there are many problems.
Continuous reading: English sentence speed is determined by the interval of stress. Sometimes you have to pronounce multiple sounds continuously in one beat, so words need to be connected end to end. The last syllable of the previous word is connected with the first syllable of the next word, which constitutes continuous reading. Can I have a look /have/look at it. Pause: A striking feature of English rhythm is the need for pause. This point is often overlooked in students' daily pronunciation. Many students think that fast reading in one go is the so-called fluency. Actually, it is not. This not only does not conform to the daily oral expression, but also brings difficulties to the listener's understanding and affects his listening. The purpose of English pause is to enhance the appeal and expressiveness of language, better express the speaker's thoughts and feelings, arouse the audience's * * *, and highlight the beauty of melody and rhythm of language. Some students misunderstand the pause in a sentence as a pause between sentences in listening training, and can't correctly connect the front and back parts, resulting in a wrong understanding of the whole article. So when listening, we should pay attention to its pronunciation and intonation, conscious memory and imitation. This can enrich our listening knowledge and improve the accuracy of our listening.
3. Pay attention to listening skills
Many children often want to hear every word clearly when listening. But in listening practice, such a habit will make children miss one word, and the rest will be too late to listen.
At first, children were not used to this way of listening practice. There are generally two situations: first, I have been entangled in how to write words that I can't understand or hear; The second is to start writing immediately after hearing the key words, which leads to the following content not being heard at all.
Therefore, in view of this situation, don't stop to think about words that you can't understand for a while, but keep listening to them so as not to miss more information. In addition, after hearing the word "Hui", we can write the first letter of the word online to remind ourselves. After listening to the recording completely, finish it one by one.
Teaching methods of college English listening
Do some dictation exercises properly.
Another way to improve students' listening is to do some dictation exercises, especially for some students who learn a foreign language only by reading and writing instead of listening, which has great obstacles in distinguishing and recognizing pronunciation. They can gain a lot through dictation practice. For example, there are many homophones in the material, so students must pay more attention to understand the meaning of these homophones through the whole material. Through this kind of practice, we can strengthen their spelling and writing skills while training their listening. If this training method is often used, it will bring great help to students' English learning. Of course, the dictation materials should not be too long, and the difficulty should be appropriate, otherwise students will feel beyond their own understanding, or beyond their own interests, and may get bored or even refuse. Therefore, only by choosing appropriate materials and doing appropriate exercises can students' listening ability be effectively improved.
Teach students to grasp the key points
Usually, students like to understand every word in the material clearly. In fact, it is basically impossible for most students, especially those with poor hearing, to understand every word with different listening materials at different speech speeds. For these students, if they want to hear each word clearly and understand its meaning, they may often lose sight of one thing and lose sight of the other, unable to keep up with the speed of listening content and only grasp part of its meaning. Even some students miss most of the listening materials because they are too entangled in the meaning of a word, which is not worth the candle. So in general, as long as students can understand and grasp the key points of the listening materials, they can also help to understand the contents of the materials. Generally speaking, many new words in a material will not affect students' understanding of the whole article. Therefore, teachers should always remind students to listen to the key points, pay attention to some details according to the questions, and teach students how to grasp the key points of listening materials.
Create a relaxed language learning atmosphere
A good language learning atmosphere is very important. In class, teachers should try to use simple and easy-to-understand English to train students' listening. Generally speaking, students will have some difficulties in the initial stage of listening training. Teachers might as well use some Chinese and body language to help students overcome difficulties. Then step by step, when students' listening ability is improved, teachers can gradually increase the amount of English until they teach in English completely, which is conducive to creating a relaxed language learning atmosphere. At the same time, it will not dampen students' enthusiasm and self-confidence because it is too difficult. Cultivating and maintaining students' self-confidence is also a very important part of English teaching. Only confident students can integrate into second language learning more easily.