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标 题: [好文共赏]Some Advice on Listening
发信站: 哈工大紫丁香 (Thu May 6 16:32:26 2004), 站内信件
Some Advice on Listening
As for speaking and listening, listening is more important than speaking.
If you understand others, you can communicate with broken sentences together w
ith gestures. If you fail to understand others, you can say nothing. Listening
ability is improved only through listening. There is no short-cut.Here are so
me advice.
I.Some Factors Affect Your Understanding
Are you often troubled by unsatisfactory understanding of spoken English?
Before blaming yourself too soon, ask yourself whether incomplete understandin
g is the result of one or more of the following language independent factors.
-tired? (after a heavy lunch)
-nervous? (facing a stranger who is a native speaker of English)
-not in the mood to receive any information, not attentive (after a hard d
ay’s work)
-a long way from where speaker is (on the other side of the road, on the t
elephone)
-disturbed by background noises (too much traffic; a plane passing over yo
ur head)
-unfamiliar with the topic (two strangers talking behind you in a bus; wal
king into a public lecture on Greek mythology or renowned South American write
rs)
II.Language Specific Factors
If none of the above factors seems to play a major role, then misunderstan
ding may well be the result of a combination of the following language specifi
c factors:
-accent of speaker(s) e.g. British, American, Australian, Singaporean...
-intonation patterns e.g. “He’s coming.“ vs. “He’s coming ?“
-stress e.g. “John will come, not George.“ Vs “John WILL come, there’s
no doubt about it.“
-unfamiliar words e.g. ’rendezvous’ in place of ’appointment’; ’to pr
ocrastinate’ instead of ’to delay’.
-idioms e.g. “out of sight, out of mind“; “a bolt from the blue“.
-colloquialism .e.g. “He’s gonna graduate this year.“ He ain’t heavy,
he’s my brother.“
-words used in informal style e.g. ’bobby’ for ’policeman’ or ’pal’
for ’friend’
-speed e.g.[ican’ttaldtoyounowcauseI’mlateforclassandwehaveatesttoday...
]
-sound pay attention to the liaisons(联读) and assimilation(同化)
If -you feel that your command of English is inadequate to meet your acade
mic needs, such as taking notes in lectures, expressing yourself in tutorials:
-you are anxious that it might be a potential obstacle to your future prof
essional pursuits, then -do something about it NOW before it is too late!
III. What Can You Do on Your Own Beyond the Classroom
Since English is easily accessible in the media, they make good, natural s
ources of input:
1.TV -choose your favourite programs and make regular appointments with th
em. Since familiarity with what is being talked about (i.e. context) facilitat
es understanding, a good practice would be to watch news broadcasts on the Eng
lish channel after viewing the Chinese version. In so doing, you can pay maxim
um attention to how the news items are presented in English.
2.Radio - even more handy than TV, particularly on campus. Listen to BBC a
nd VOA every day. News -like songs, the news is full of frequently repeated br
oadcast items. First listen to the slow English and then the normal speed. You
are free to do other things while listening - having breakfast, preparing to
go to class, having a picnic, even jogging! In short, anything except intellec
tually demanding tasks such as intensive reading.
3.Tapes-find some good English tapes including some English songs and list
en to them intensively and extensively.
4.Internet-there is a lot listening materials on the internet. You can lis
ten to them and also you can download them and practise them. You can enter so
me chat room to have the talk with others.
5.Software-choose some software for listening and practise them on the com
puter.
6.Films-select some English films from tapes and VCD and try to understand
them. If there are Chinese subtittles, don’t look at them first. Then you wa
tch them again and scan those words on the screen.
There are many ways for you to improve your listening ability. The problem
is to insist on doing it. Where there is a will, there is a way.
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