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【Abstract】With the purpose of increasing the understanding of listening comprehension and improving the teaching of listening， this paper first examines important theoretical aspects of listening comprehension， namely， the nature of listening comprehension， the process of listening comprehension and the factors that affect listening comprehension. It then present a discussion of how listening should be taught to Chinese students-- - Attach importance to developing students’ listening strategies.
【Key words】English listening; English teaching; listening comprehension
1. Introduction
In listening classes， we usually find that teachers begin with the listening of some passages by introducing some new and difficult words， and give a brief introduction about the background concerned with the materials. After that they play the recorder one or two times， and students are required to do the exercises prepared beforehand. The last procedure is to check the answer and explain the question briefly. In fact， such a kind of approach to teach listening is very much like listening test， for listeners are simply exposed to a succession of listening text. They are tested how much they are able to understand the material in terms of lots of comprehension exercises.
2. Theoretical views about listening strategies in EF
In the field of foreign language teaching， Audio-lingual method was overwhelming in40’s and 50’s in 20 century. With the development of cognitive psychology， many researchers attach importance to the process of listening comprehension and they believed the listening comprehension should be combined with the whole structure， cognitive inference and contents.
In a word， they consider the listening to be a course of thinking， combined with inference. Through the skillful practice it could be improved. These advanced views give me great guide.
3. Case study
There are 500 students in Hubei broadcast and TV school engaged in my research. They majored Art of broadcasting，programme designing， accounting and so on in grade 1， who have 6 years’ experience of English learning.
The instrument of the survey is questionnaire which was designed by the researcher and includes 8 items. Following is the questionnaire：
（1） What do you think of the listening sills obtained from Listening class？
A. Abundant
【Key words】English listening; English teaching; listening comprehension
1. Introduction
In listening classes， we usually find that teachers begin with the listening of some passages by introducing some new and difficult words， and give a brief introduction about the background concerned with the materials. After that they play the recorder one or two times， and students are required to do the exercises prepared beforehand. The last procedure is to check the answer and explain the question briefly. In fact， such a kind of approach to teach listening is very much like listening test， for listeners are simply exposed to a succession of listening text. They are tested how much they are able to understand the material in terms of lots of comprehension exercises.
2. Theoretical views about listening strategies in EF
In the field of foreign language teaching， Audio-lingual method was overwhelming in40’s and 50’s in 20 century. With the development of cognitive psychology， many researchers attach importance to the process of listening comprehension and they believed the listening comprehension should be combined with the whole structure， cognitive inference and contents.
In a word， they consider the listening to be a course of thinking， combined with inference. Through the skillful practice it could be improved. These advanced views give me great guide.
3. Case study
There are 500 students in Hubei broadcast and TV school engaged in my research. They majored Art of broadcasting，programme designing， accounting and so on in grade 1， who have 6 years’ experience of English learning.
The instrument of the survey is questionnaire which was designed by the researcher and includes 8 items. Following is the questionnaire：
（1） What do you think of the listening sills obtained from Listening class？
A. Abundant