【正文】 ill 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。 and to make the teaching methods flexible and various. Apart from the textbook, teachers can use English songs or movies as an auxiliary method to arouse students’ interest in listening. When selecting listening materials, teachers had better choose those materials imitating reallife situations of native speakers. Music and movies are wonderful. Students can not only appreciate them and get away from the tense classroom atmosphere, but also can learn some knowledge of language and culture about the Englishspeaking countries. On the other hand, teachers can try their best to hold colorful extracurricular activities, such as English party, English corner, recite contest and so on。 we can also encourage students to listen to the English radios, such as BBC, VOA. All these activities will make students find that learning English is being more and more meaningful and interesting. The third one is to set some brainstorm questions which students are interested for them to discuss before listening, which will arouse their great interest in the topic. Students will try their best to state their own opinions. It is a good method to draw students’ attention on the listening text and also a good way to activate the atmosphere of the classroom. In this case, both students’ listening ability and spoken ability are improved. . Strategies of students in improving listening It is very important for students to have a good mand of the basic knowledge of English and sone useful listening skills. They can understand the listening materials well, and they will feel more successful and less anxious. If they want to reduce the high anxiety while listening, they should strengthen their basic basic knowledge of English first.. Improvement of linguistic knowledge The pronunciation, stress and intonation are the basic factors that obstruct listening prehension. Therefore, at the beginning of listening prehension lesson, it is important to train students’ ability of discriminating sounds. To improve this kind of ability, students need to practice in hearing and saying the sounds of isolated words pronounced by a native speaker. This kind of practice should be carried out through various activities, for monotonous practice for a long time may spoil students’ interest. For example, students can be given only one written word and asked to identify it out of three minimal pairs: for example, petpotpat, (pot)。 students, can be asked to tick the sound which is pronounced: for example, “safesave”. Students can be asked to identify whether the two sounds are the same: for example, “l(fā)ownow, knownew”. It is also important to be able to identify stress and intonation, because different stress and intonation may imply different meanings in the same sentence.. Practice for the tempo of speakingThe tempo of speaking is another painful thing for most students. Students plain that they cannot catch up with the speakers while doing listening practice, because they must memorize, store, classify, understand and respond to the information they hear. It is a quite difficult task for them. To solve this problem, firstly teachers can slow down the speed of speaking and pause after some sentences for students to think over and understand the contents, and then teachers gradually speed up the tempo of speaking and add the listening contents so that students can adapt to the average speed. Secondly, students can begin with the repetition of phrases, shorter sentences and then longer sentences. While doing this practice, students must pay great attention to the speaker in order to repeat. Repetition requires students to skillfully master the phonetic, intonation, grammar, vocabulary knowledge and rules, and they also must strengthen their ability of recognition and translation. At first, students will find that it is not easy for them to repeat, but if keep doing this practice, students will realize that they are used to repeating sentences, and then they will feel that the information going into their ears is not lost so quickly, and gradually they can catch up with the speaker. These two methods are useful in training students listening ability.. Enlarge vocabulary Vocabulary is the foundation of a language. Listeners must have enough vocabulary for their improvement in listening because vocabulary affects listening directly. If students do not have enough vocabulary, they will be nervous when they e across some unfamiliar words or phrases, which will affect students’ global understanding of the listening text. Therefore, students must try every method to increase their vocabulary.. Strengthen grammarGrammar plays an important part in the analysis of written sentence structure and sentence pattern. The purpose of the analysis is to prehend the whole passage. The same is true of listening prehension of sentence. The purpose of recognition of the sentence pattern and capture of the key information is to understand the meaning of the speaker’s utterance. So listener has to have a good mand of the knowledge of grammar in order to improve his listening prehension. For example, “You should have e yesterday.” If the listener knows about the function of the subjunctive mood, he will infer in a flash that the listener should e yesterday but he did not. In addition, learning grammar in its practical sense will reinforce the listener’s unde