Listening strategies refer to thoughts or activities that language leers often use in the process of listening. Listening strategies are the vital branches of leing strategies, and as researches of leing strategies become a specialized research field, researches of listening strategies have spread to the aspects of strategy-elaborating, strategy-training, strategy-guiding, strategy-instruction etc. In recent years, with the continuous efforts of scholars at home and abroad, researches of listening strategies tend to be more elaborate in depth and length, which reflects on research contents, research fields, research methods, research subjects etc. In this paper, the authors have mainly made researches on the research status quo of English listening strategies at home and abroad and have given reflections on the research deficiencies. It is expected that we could improve both the leerslistening proficiency and the strategy-instruction in EFL classrooms at home and abroad.