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nding news mentioned in details, including pronunciation, cultural barriers, vocabulary, grammar and psychological barrier. Corresponding strategies are put forward to deal with the barriers. Those parts are called the core, as 9 approaches are involved in the paper: (1) Lowering students’ anxiety, (2) Enlarging vocabulary, (3) Improving grammar, (4) Broadening background information, (5) Strengthening phoics practice, (6) Connecting listening with writing, (7) Training more, (8) Focusing on the center, stepbystep process. In short, people should make every effort to improve their ability of English news listening prehension. After doing little by little, tremendous benefits could be achieved out of one’s expectation one day. The paper, maybe, is not as perfect as what is written by famous researchers. Some of the approaches mentioned are concluded from the perspective of theory, not practice. Thus, the result wouldn’t be the same as one’s expectation when those ways are put into practice. Maybe one day, there will be a kind of way, more efficient and practical, introduced by pioneers and learning news English will be an enjoyable process. 安徽工程大學(xué)畢業(yè)設(shè)計(jì)(論文) 23 Acknowledgements Acpanied by the rosy colour of dawn and the lingering light of dusk, the HUBIN p。t??l], connected to be a faster sound. Cultural barriers Next, it is cultural barriers, which could appear at any time any place. News reflects information on every aspect of the society, including sports, natural disasters, and religion, requiring students to have some general ideas about every field. It is necessary for students to know some customs and festivals about that we do not have, such as trick or treat on Halloween. American linguist Oell Lymes has pointed out that a lack of social background will have effect on the cultivation of listening. When it es to the impact of social culture on the language, he thinks that “ social life not only affects the external language performance, also affect the internal language itself”(王 蕾 20xx: 60) . So there is a close relationship between listening of foreign language and understanding of the social culture. In order to lay firm foundation for learning news English, American culture should be acquired as much as possible. In fact, we’d better learn the culture in the world since the news is worldwide. Let’s take Christmas day as an example. As we all know Christmas day, it is one of the most popular festivals in America. Crowds of persons are eager to celebrate the festival. 安徽工程大學(xué)畢業(yè)設(shè)計(jì)(論文) 13 However, in China, we have spring festival instead of Christmas day. Even though nowadays, there are a number of people celebrating Christmas day, spring festival can not be taken place in their mind, for who the celebration of Christmas day is just for fun. Terms and slangs What es next is terms and slangs in vocabulary. Vocabulary is the foundation of language and a good store of vocabulary is the foundation of good listening. Students have limited amount of vocabulary pared with the vast listening materials covering politics, economy, environment and other aspects (Zhong Weixuan, 20xx: 65). Usually, when students hear a new word, they will feel unfortable, and the second new word will make them confused. They have to stop to guess the meaning in order to understand the whole sentence. But in the meantime, they fail to listen the following part. Because of unfamiliarity with American culture, people do not know the fastening or special meaning of some words. Words appearing in news English have the following characteristics: Capitals’ names are often used to take place of countries or any government agency. White house is used to replace American government and the Pentagon is instead of the . department of defense. In pursuit of novel and more impressive force, reporters often borrow 鄧晶晶: Analysis and Exploration of the Way to Understand News English Quickly 14 technical words, military words or other loanwords. For example, Canada to bill Russia, Here, ―bill‖ is a business word. Acronyms used for a long period bee a new word. Benelux nations refer to the following three nations: Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxemburg. For the slangs, it will be even confusing. Look at the following sentence, ―I have to go to the john. Wait for me in the car.‖ What does john mean in mind? From memory vault, it refers to a person. But in this sentence, it means the washroom. Another example is ―Keep your shirt on. He didn’t mean to offend you. That’s just the way he talks.‖ Here ―keep your shirt on‖ doesn’t mean wearing your shirt. It means keeping calm. ―A red – letter‖ means a day worth to celebrating, not a real letter in red color. Thus special language words also increase the difficulty to understand news. Grammar Grammar is another important factor that influences listening prehension. Grammar is the primary framework to constitute sentences and passages. It is equally important in both reading and listening. Good grammar can help us write speeches, letters and reports, meaning that we would be much 安徽工程大學(xué)畢業(yè)設(shè)計(jì)(論文) 15 more popular in workplace. And if we want a job in journalism, we will have to know what kind of words that really attract the audience. Nobody wants to read a boring article from someone who knows nothing about grammar or how it works. Despite the great part grammar plays, schools nowadays do not attach great importance to grammar teaching. Teachers are shifting their focus and energy from grammar to speaking. Although speaking is very important, yet grammar is the foundation of speaking. Without good grammar, all we say is a broken sentence as if we were poorly educated (高妍, 20xx: 23). Psychological barrier Psychologica