At the same time, teachers should think about students’ mentality, the
listening materials’ overview, the format, the timing and the procedure, etc.
Generally speaking, adequate pre-listening activities can more or less smooth the way for students’ overcoming the listening barrier and improve their listening comprehension ability to some extent. Therefore, designing and researching the best pre-listening activity is very important in our English listening teaching.
So try to use as many different sources of listening materials as we can, advertisement, news programs ,songs, extracts from plays ,speeches ,informal dialogues…..the more varied and authentic the listening practice you offer them, the more fun you will have.
Appendix
An Investigation and Research of Using Pre-listening Activities for
improving the listening ability of Rural Middle School Students
Dear students, in order to under all of you use the pre-listening activities
and research the best ways and improve the teaching methods and qualities. Thus I precede the questionnaire does not register your name .Please each of you choose the best option carefully and fill in the blanks. Thank you! A. Yes B .No C. I don’t know
( ) 1.Are you interested in English?
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( ) 2.Do you like listening class?
( ) 3. Can you understand the listening materials when you listening? ( ) 4.Are you interested in listening training? ( ) 5 .Do you often listening English after class?
( ) 6. Do you think people with talents for language learning can learn listening well without effort?
( ) 7.Do you feel nervous when you listen to the listening materials? ( ) 8. Do you want to understand every word when you listening?
( ) 9.Does your teacher often use the pre-listening activities before you listening?
( ) 10. (Multiple choice) which pre-listening activities your teacher often use?
A. Pair work B. Introduce the background information C .Role play D. Predict content E. Play games F. Learning vocabulary G. Others______________________-
( ) 11. (Multiple choices) which pre-listening activities you think can help you improve your listening effect?
A. Pair work B. Introduce the background information C .Role play D. Predict content E. Play games F. Learning vocabulary G. Others______________________-
( ) 12. through the pre-listening activities, you feel relax in the English listening process.
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References
【1】Esther P. Huang How to use the pre-listening activity effectively (2005) 【2】邓慧君 听前活动对英语听力理解之成效研究 高等教育出版社 1996
【3】汪学立 如何提高学生英语听力效率 外语界，1999，（3）：44-47 【4】 Gareth Rees Pre-listening activity help students to improve listening effects （2004）
【5】傅瑞屏 中学英语教学法 讲学稿 广东教院2006年
【6】陈如鹏 浅谈英语活动在提高学生听力所起的作用 外国语，1998 【7】Baker Pre-listening activities and English listening comprehension（2004）
【8】池爱玉 听力教学所存在的问题及对策 中国论文网（2001）
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