英语是一门语言工具课,所以,在英语语言教学中,教师必须加强对学生听和说的训练,培养学生的听说技能,以此促进其他方面能力的提高,让学生在使用语言的过程中学习语言。培养学生英语听说能力,不仅是实施素质教育的重要内容,还是培养跨世纪人才的需要,也是新课改中教师的重要职责,因此,在中学英语教学中,必须培养学生的听说能力。一、中学生英语听说能力的现状就我所在的农村中学来说,学生们都把英语当成是知识型或理解型的课程,仅满足于听懂老师所讲的内容,忽 Therefore, in English language teaching, teachers must strengthen the students’ listening and speaking training, develop their listening and speaking skills, so as to promote other aspects of the ability to improve the process of using the language Learn language. To develop students ’listening and speaking abilities in English is not only an important part of carrying out quality education, but also an important task of cultivating talents in the new century. Therefore, in English teaching in middle school, students’ listening and speaking abilities must be cultivated. First, the status of middle school students listening and speaking ability of English In my rural middle school, the students regarded English as a knowledge-based or comprehension course, just to understand what the teacher said, suddenly