听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。研究表明,听占整个言语交际活动总量的45%。由此可见,训练听力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,提高学生听力理解水平,已经受到英语教师的高度重视。但是,笔者认为,目前初中英语的听力教学还处于起点阶段,距新课标所规定的目标尚有一定的距离。 Listening is an important means for people to conduct verbal communication and is one of the important ways to learn English. Research shows that listening accounts for 45% of the total speech activity. From this we can see that training listening helps to improve students’ English communication skills. With the opening of new English language teaching materials, students’ listening training has been strengthened and their listening comprehension levels have been improved. This has been highly valued by English teachers. However, the author believes that at present, listening teaching in junior high school English is still at the starting stage and there is still a certain distance from the goals set by the new curriculum.