口语是人们进行言语交际的重要手段,是学习英语的重要途径之一。里弗斯(Rivers)的研究表明,听说占整个言语交际活动总量的75%。由此可见,训练听力、口语有助于全面提高学生的英语交际能力。随着英语新教材的启用,加强学生的听力训练,提高学生听力交际理解水平,已经受到广大英语教师的高度重视。但是,我认为,目前中学英语的听力、口语教学还处于起点阶段,离新课标所规定的目标尚有一定的距离。我在学生中做过一次关于听力、口语测试的 Oral English is an important means of people’s verbal communication and one of the important ways to learn English. Rivers research shows that 75 percent of the total verbal communication activity is heard and heard. Thus, training listening and speaking help to improve students’ English communication skills. With the opening of new English teaching materials, strengthening students’ listening training and improving their understanding of listening comprehension, they have received the great attention of the majority of English teachers. However, in my opinion, at present, the listening and oral English teaching in middle school English is still at a starting point and there is still a certain distance from the target set in the new curriculum standard. I did a listening and speaking test among my students