【正文】 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。 people always pare vocabulary to building material. For every English learner, study English without a certain amount of vocabulary is just like builders building houses without bricks. Vocabulary plays an important role in the English learning. Every dialogue and passage in listening prehension is made up of sentences, while the basic unit of sentence is word or phrase. During the process of listening, listeners should not only do the exercises of sound recognition, but also grasp the language continuity. Definitely they will meet some difficult words while listening, especially when the topic is not so familiar with them. If a new word appeared while listening, they will find it difficult for them to understand the whole meaning. Even some students stop to think about the new word they met and can no longer concentrate their attention on the ining information, in this case, they will miss the next step of speech and can not understand the whole passage well. For example: M: You were seen hanging about the store on the night when it was robbed, were not you?W: Me? You must have made a mistake. I was at home that night.Q: What are they talking about? If students are unfamiliar with “hanging about” and “robbed”, they will be at a loss and can not know what the dialogue is about, which will lead to select a wrong answer. Thus, mastering a certain amount of vocabulary is an important basis for listening, for vocabulary is the basis of language and it influences listening directly. It cannot be doubted that lack of the necessary amount of vocabulary will lead listening prehension to failure.. GrammarGrammar is another important factor influences listening prehension. Systematic grammar knowledge is like a strong frame of a building, it can help students to catch the implication of vocal sounds, and understand them well, and it also can tell students the tense, voice and mood. For example: W: Do you enjoy majoring in mathematics?M: Enjoy? If I could choose again, I would study biology.Q: What do we learn about the man from the conversation? If students know the subjunctive mood and rhetorical question quite well, after hearing the sentence, immediately they will know the man does not like mathematics at all, he likes biology. Today, there are so many students lack solid grammar knowledge so that they feel listening is quite difficult. Students know every word in the listening, but they can not understand what the speaker means. It will directly affect their achieving good results while listening. . Cultural background knowledgeThe big differences between the East and the West will greatly influence the listening prehension. The background knowledge is indispensable in listening prehension. The influences of the background knowledge are no less important than the linguistic knowledge. Language is a kind of cultural expression. The relationship between language and culture is very close, and different countries have different cultures. It is necessary for students to know some background knowledge about the English countries, such as the history, culture, customs, life styles and habits. If students lack these kinds of knowledge, they can not understand the listening materials correctly. For example, if students are given two passages, one is about MidAutumn Festival。 it is concerned with all the sounds that occur in the world’s languages.” (Zhang Guihua, 2004: 96) Phonetics is crucial in listening prehension。 Wan 2001: 29). Anxiety is the “ tense anticipation of a threatening but vague event。另一方面，老師應(yīng)該幫助學(xué)生減輕焦慮，英美文化背景知識和聽力技巧，他們能夠容易聽懂聽力材料。本文主要分析了焦慮的概念，焦慮與語言學(xué)習(xí)的關(guān)系和焦慮的一些癥狀，還討論了一些影響中學(xué)生焦慮的因素。畢業(yè)論文(設(shè)計)Acknowledgements I wish to express my thanks and appreciation to my tutor, Ms. Deng Chunyan, whose careful reading and suggestions have been invaluable to me throughout my thesis writing. My thanks should also be given to all the teachers who have taught me my BA courses. Without their enthusiasm and support, I cannot have done it. I am also grateful to my classmates and roommates for their psychological support and encouragement. In particular, I own a special debt of thanks to Jiang Fangting, who has given me many suggestions to revise the paper. Abstract Listening is an essential ponent of munication in human life, but for most middle school students, listening is very difficult. In other words, it is their mon weakness. Most Chinese students regard English listening prehension as the most difficult part in all kinds of examinations. They think the listening materials are too difficult to understand. The speed of delivery is too fast and accordingly, anxiety easily takes place during listening prehension. This paper mainly analyzes the concept of anxiety, the relationship between anxiety and language learning, and some symptoms of anxiety. It also discusses some factors affecting middleschool students’ anxiety while listening. Listening prehension is a plex activity: it requires students to use their phonetics, vocabulary, grammar and background knowledge. The author suggests some ways to reduce anxiety and improve listening prehension from two aspects. On the one hand, students must first have a good mand of linguistic knowledge, and form