【正文】 anxiety results in 1) failure or confusion and 2) avoidance or excessive effort. Examples: 1) Students lose concentration. They tend to forget what they have learned。 the other is about Easter Day. It is very easy for them to understand the former, because MidAutumn Day is the traditional festival in China, and they are very familiar with it。 when they make a mistake, the teacher must protect student’s selfesteem, and can not use the word “NO” on the total repudiation. We should see the expression of the small right part of a word, phrase, sentence. As long as there are something correct, teachers should be positively sure of students’ achievement, and stimulate their selfconfidence as often as possible. Teachers should help students to correct their mistakes politely. If students do a little better in listening, teachers should give them high praise. When students met some learning problems, teachers should mit to the help and guidance. Students would not feel nervous in a relaxed environment. . To cultivate students’ interest in listeningInterest is the best teacher and the power of study. So cultivating students’ interest in learning plays an essential role in listening prehension. There are three effective ways to cultivate students’ interest in listening: One is to choose interesting materials for students to listen to. An interesting listening material can easily arouse their interest in listening. The materials cannot be too difficult, or they will easily frustrate students’ confidence. The topic and language can be related to the textbook lessons the students have learned. The listening materials must be selected from easy to difficult so that students can realize their improvement in listening, which will help them to build up their confidence. In this way teachers know how much students can cope with and how much of the unfamiliar can be included without being a threat to the students’ confidence. Before listening teachers should introduce some historical, geographical, political and cultural knowledge about the listening material to arouse students’ interests, which will better students’ understanding of the listening text. Most exercises in listening materials are multiple choices, which is a disadvantage to the improvement of speaking ability. According to the material, we can plement some questions and use the forms to ask and answer. We can ask students to retell or review the material after listening to train students’ memory and prehension of catching the main idea. We can encourage students to listen enthusiastically. They can improve their spoken English as well. The other way is to make the teaching contents colorful and authentic。 esp. as caused by uncertainty about something. It has been proved that anxiety has a negative effect on language learning. Psychological barriers mainly reflect in two aspects: the state of being too nervous or the state of being unable to focus one’s attention during listening. In regular listening practice, some students can not concentrate on the listening content. Instead, they are absentminded, wandering away, though they still wear their earphones. Such a state of listening, even lasting for only a few seconds, will result in broken listening, which, of course, will affect prehension result. Some students are easy to be distracted because of being fatigued after listening for a long period. Anxiety often occurs in examination. Some students are too eager to get high marks but they are also afraid that they can not adjust themselves to the listening material and the delivery rate. So they bee too nervous and blankminded. Continuity and accuracy of listening can not be assured in such kind of state.. SelfconfidenceSelfconfidence is the psychological foundation on the way to success. It is more necessary to have it in learning a foreign language. We find the confident and aspiring students usually can get good results, especially in speaking and listening. Once Ms. Zeng had a student who came from the countryside. First, she was always laughed at for her poor pronunciation. But she did not give up. She spent much of her time in practising English, listening and imitating. And whenever she met the foreign teacher, she was always active to chat with them. At last, she went to Beijing Foreign Language Studies University with 142 scores in listening. From this, we can see how important it is to have confidence as an English learner.. Motivation Practice proves that motivation has a direct relation with the purpose of studying. We find a few students have no definite learning target and motivation, and the purpose of learning for them is to pass time and walk through their parents. So whenever they meet difficulties, they feel afraid, and emotional barriers appear. On the contrary, some students with clear target can be active to accept “input”, overing the handicaps, and get good results. So “attitude , as a factor of emotion, is of great importance to carry out a program successfully.” (Dai Weidong, 1994: 30). The speed of speakingMany students plain that in listening what hits their ears disappears so quickly that they do not have enough time to decode the message. Virtually every language learner initially thinks that native speakers speak too fast. “Listening prehension is demanding. Students can not control the speed of speakers, and students can not interrupt or stop the speakers for clarification.” (Wang Yinglan, 2004: 85) Unlike reading, where a person can stop and go back to read again, in listening the hearer may not always have the opportunity to stop the speaker and listen again. Instead the stream of speech will continue to flow. Students are only used to listening to teachers who always read the average speed in daily life, or used to slow conversation with their partner while practicing oral English, so they cannot suit the speed of normal speed listening materials.. Lack of the basic knowle