受传统教学注影响，我国外语教学一直有重语法轻意义，重知识转能力的倾向，致使听力教学质量差，学生听力水平低，无法适应交际的需要。本文从母语机制、语音词汇、听力技巧、精听泛听、教师作用等方面分析了英语听力教学的现状和问题，并对如何提高听力教学的效果提出一些简略意见。 Affected by the traditional teaching methods, our foreign language teaching has always had the tendency of emphasizing grammatical lightness and knowledge-transfer ability, resulting in poor listening teaching and low level of students’ listening comprehension, which can not meet the needs of communication. This article analyzes the current situation and problems of English listening teaching from the aspects of mother tongue mechanism, phonetic vocabulary, listening skills, listening comprehension and teachers’ role, and puts forward some brief opinions on how to improve the effectiveness of listening teaching.