Barriers and effective strategies of developing english listening skills

As an important means of communication, listening plays an important role in the course of people's learning and absorbing the language. It is also an import way to develop students' ability in their language communication . The essay mainly elaborates the language barriers and other factors which influence students' listening comprehension, and puts forward some effective strategies. It emphasizes that the important means to develop students' listening skills is to create better language atmosphere, train listening skills, combine intensive listening with extensive listening closely, as well as the visual-listening-speaking together, arouse students' interest, experience success and enlarge knowledge.