How to Improve Junior High School Students’ Listening Ability in English Teaching
3.1.1 The bottom-up listening process (Microprocessing) 4
3.1.2 The top-down listening process (Macro-processing) 5
3.1.3 The interaction of the two processes 6
4.1.1 The speed of the listening materials 9
4.1.2 The speakers’ pronunciation and intonation. 9
4.1.3 Length of listening materials 10
4.1.4 The listening environment condition. 10
4.2.1 The listeners’ phonetic knowledge and vocabulary. 11
4.2.2 Psychological problems 12
4.2.4 Background knowledge. 13
5.1 Strengthen students’ mastering of basic knowledge of pronunciation and vocabulary. 13
5.2 Motivate students to practice listening as much as possible outside the class 14
5.3 Create a good listening environment 15
5.4 Select proper listening materials 15
5.5 Try to reduce students’ anxiety and make them be confident in listening. 17
5.6 Explain the background knowledge and the difficult words if necessary. 18
5.7 Strengthen teaching of listening skills 19
5.7.1 Make use of the questions and options before listening and predict the listening content 19
5.7.2 Catch the key point of the material, and make simple notes during listening. 21
5.7.3 Pay attention to word stress and the topic sentence. 23
5.7.4 Comprehend the whole listening materials and skip the difficult words 24
5.7.5 Check the answers of the options with existed experience and background knowledge 25
