Applied Research on Task-based Approach in English Listening Teaching in Higher Vocational Education

How to improve the effects of English listening teaching in colleges and universities is an issue which is very much concerned by vocational education at present.As the previous stage of learning English is mainly focusing on theoretical knowledge, with little attention on listening, which leads to many problems for the current vocational colleges to carry out English listening teaching.In today's society, learning English well and communicating in English is a basic skill.In order to help students to lay a good foundation for English communication, it is necessary to improve students' English listening capabilities to a great extent and find out the main problems of English listening teaching in higher vocational colleges.To apply the task-based approach in English listening teaching is of great significance to improve the effects of English listening classes.