【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 irst position(黃榮平，2009：146). As the speaker reports at a high speed, pronunciation plays an important role in whether listeners can be aware of the meaning. For the sake of saving time, it is mon that those sound phenomena like liaison, assimilation and omission appeared in the pronunciation, those which makes pronunciation much easier for news broadcasters, language more smooth. However, this without doubt, increases difficulties for listeners. Students usually learn words by remembering the spelling and pay little attention on the sound, which leads to weakness of listening. For example, we often pronounce the phrase “not at all” as [n?t ] [230。t ] [??l], however in a report, the sound may bee [n?t230。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2009：60）. 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. 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, 2011: 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 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 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，2011：23). Psychological barrier Psychological barrier is a subjective element, which must be overe in the process of English news listening. Students distracted with emotional tension often can not improve hearing ability. Students in class neither using hand to write notes nor using brains to think questions have no impression on the content he or she just listens to. Some even listens to news with a fear of emotion. When he or she hears an unknown word, he bees nervous quickly and of course the following content is missing. Russian psychologist Shensi Ji has said that attention is the only gateway. Only passing through this gateway can external world be felt in heart（王蕾，2009：60）. Experience proves that the more concentrated someone is, the more he will understand. Once he focuses, there is a period of exciting moment