SOME IDEAS ON LISTENING PRACTICE IN THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING

Abstract

In this article the author touches upon some issues concerning listening practice in the English classroom, which are discussed in research papers by many scholars and practitioners throughout the world.Taking into consideration the widely-discussed problems of listening practice and being guided byher own professional practice as an English teacher the author tries to find the appropriate ways of solving some problems concerning listening: how to select and fully exploit materials for listening comprehensive activities, how to integrate listening skills into other linguistic skills, what the most reasonable amount of time should be spent on listening itself, what activities to use to helpstudents to focus on listening objectives. This article should help English teachers reconsider how we think about listening materials, listening tasks and applying appropriate
teaching methods and techniques.