【Abstract】Listening comprehension is considered as a complex cognitive process， and requires listeners to organize and construct intuitively language meaning by means of connecting what they have already known before with what they are listening in listening materials or text. As we all know， listening is one of the most important components in English test， so it is necessary to train the students’ listening to increase their listening level. With the progress of technology， multimedia and network teaching gets down to be applied in listening teaching， which has a fairly great influence on the enhancement of English listening capacity. This thesis aims at exploring the effect of multimedia and network teaching on English listening capacity of middle school students， and gives some advice to refine listening teaching methods and improve listening ability of middle school students.
　　【Key words】English listening capacity； multimedia and network teaching； middle school students； listening teaching
　　I. introduction
　　With the growth of modern information technology， more advanced teaching models are introduced English class teaching. Multimedia and network technology becomes one of the most popular English teaching models， especially used in listening teaching. Multimedia and network teaching owns many advantages， such as network comprehensiveness， information opening， and activity interaction. It is a novel teaching tool relating graphics， literature， painting， and music （Yang， 2015）. It is convenient to use and provides an effective way for middle school students to learn English listening. In the past， English teaching often pays attention to reading and writing instead of listening and speaking of middle school students. However， at present， the society demands more people with comprehensive practical capacity. Therefore， in addition to get good scores in listening， students must take a variety of strategies to enhance their own listening comprehensive capacity. Listening teaching can’t totally base on test-oriented education to purely improve listening scores， but requires taking effective methods to form the listening comprehensive capacity of middle school students. The thesis mainly aims to explore the influence of multimedia and network teaching on English listening ability of middle school students， and comes up with some suggestions to refine listening teaching methods and improve listening comprehensive ability of middle school students. 　　II. Practicability of multimedia and network teaching
　　1. Abundance of content and convenience of usability
　　Multimedia and network teaching， as a modern teaching method， includes a large amount of information， and it is very convenience to operate. Nowadays， it has become the main mode of English teaching for middle school students and it can make students participate in actively English class teaching and improve English comprehensive ability. According to the literature about language learning environment， in the acquiring process of the second language， favorable and spectacular language learning environment plays a rather important part in English learning. That is because language learning requires learners to connect their own psychological mechanisms with their linguistic environment （Jing