Teaching EFL Listening: From Theory to Practice

With the purpose of increasing the understanding of listening comprehension and of improving the teaching of listening, this paper first examines three important theoretical aspects of listening comprehen-sion, namely, the nature of listening comprehension, the process of listening comprehension and the factors that affect listening comprehension. It then presents a discussion of how listening should be taught to Chinese college English majors. Five suggestions are made: ① pay attention to the stages of listening teaching. ② Give emphasis to developing micro-skills of listening. ③ Attach importance to developing students' listening strate-gies.④ Teach listening integratively with other language skills. ⑤ Make good use of modern audio-visual media and other learning facilities.