Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Research Background
It is the main way of acquiring language information, and provides a basis for other skills. But it is also the most difficult skill for learners to master. Many learners are afraid of English listening, treating it as a more difficult skill than the others. And listening is an important part in College Entrance Examination and is directly related to the senior high school students' future career. Therefore, it becomes more important for English teachers to teach English listening and to make it easier for students.
1.1探讨背景
它是获取语言信息的主要途径，并提供其他技能的基础。但它也是最困难的学习者掌握的技能。许多学习者的英语听，害怕把它作为技能比别人更困难。而听是高考的重要组成部分，直接联系到高中学生未来的职业生涯。因此，它成为更重要的是英语老师教英语听力，并使其更容易为学生。
1.1.1 The Background of English Listening
Listening is very important in our daily communication. Research demonstrates that people spend 70 percent of their waking time in some form of communication. Of that time, 11 percent is spent in writing, 15 percent reading, 32percent talking, and 42 to 57 percent listening (Cooper 1995). Obviously it is an important way of communication and an important way to acquire knowledge and information.The improvement of senior high school students' listening ability is very helpful to the development of their abilities of speaking, reading and writing. Therefore, to improve the students' listening ability in senior high school is of great importance. Under the New Curriculum Criteria (NCC)，the goal of beaming English for studentsin senior high school in China is to communicate with others in it. It has high requirement for listening comprehension, since it plays an important role in English learning.
1.1.1英语听力的背景
在我们的日常沟通中听力是非常重要。探讨表明人们花70％的他们醒来的时间在某种形式的沟通。15％阅读，英语论文，32％说，有11％都花在写作，谈话，以及42％至57％（1995年库珀）用来听。显然，这是一个重要的沟通方式，他们说，读，英语毕业论文，写能力的发展的一个重要途径获取知识和信息。高中学生的听力能力的提高是非常有帮助的。因此，要提高高中学生的听力能力是非常重要的。根据新课程标准（NCC），在中国高中学生英语喜气洋洋的目标是在它与他人进行沟通。它具有很高的要求，听力理解，因为它在英语学习中起着重要的影响。
However, for a long time the training of English listening has not been placed inproper position in traditional teaching and thus listening has long been a weak point.Many students think that listening is one of the most difficult parts in English study,and some of them even have difficulty in understanding what their teachers teach inEnglish. Since the development of students' listening ability has become the demandof the New English Curriculum Standard, more attention has been focused onteaching English listening than before.How to increase the students' listening ability and how to improve students'performance in English listening examinations have become the subjects that seniorhigh school teachers care about. Since the traditional teaching method can't improvethe students' listening ability effectively and it may lower the students' interest inEnglish listening, some better methods must be taken to change the situation. Thus,the author tries to apply some listening strategies in English listening classes toachieve the goals.
1.1.2 The Background of Listening Strategies and Listening Predicting
StrategiesThe reason why many Chinese students regard the listening test as the mostdifficult part of a whole test is that they are not trained to use effective listeningstrategies to improve their listening proficiency. So it is essential to instruct somelistening strategies to change the situati
| 
