听是语言活动的一种形式,在人类认识活动中占有极大的比重。根据美国外语教学法专家W.M.Rivers和M.S.Temperly统计,人们在社会实践的语言文字使用中,有45%是通过听来完成的。在语言学习过程中,听,还是吸收和巩固语言知识和培养说、读、写语言能力的重要手段。然而,听力也是外语学习中一个不易突破的难关,如果让英语学习者把听、说、读、写四种语言技能按困难程度排序,听力或许会位居首位。因此,听力困难成为外语学习 Listening is a form of language activity that accounts for a large proportion of human awareness. According to statistics by W.M.Rivers and M.S.Tempperly, experts in foreign-language teaching in the United States, 45% of the people who use the spoken and written language in social practice listen through. In the process of language learning, listening, or absorbing and consolidating language knowledge and training, speaking, reading and writing an important means of language ability. However, listening is also a hard-to-break obstacle in foreign language learning. Listening may be ranked first if English learners are ranked according to difficulty in listening, speaking, reading and writing. Therefore, hearing difficulties become foreign language learning