作者：丘文利
　　“Real success in English teaching and learning is when the learners can actually communicate in English inside and outside the classroom”This essay aims to analyze the difficulties the students are faced with and list some solutions while they are learning listening to English and provide practical guidance to enable students to approach the learning of listening with confidence.
　　Listening difficulties the Chinese students are facing
　　The students may encounter many difficulties they face in understanding a talk， speech or dialogues in using language. The listeners， place and the different kinds of audience could be the causes of these difficulties. The factors include the speaker talking quickly， the noisy background， individual slang languages， lacking in visual clues，， the listener’s poor vocabulary， uncertain about the knowledge of the theme， not knowing how to distinguish different persons“sounds and external influences. Listening comprehension is also influenced by the speakers” features. Different speakers have various different types of characteristics. Apart from those mentioned above， listening is affected by the ways the listeners use and the strategies the students employ.
　　Some solutions about the difficulties the students are suffering from
　　As teachers we should be aware of the potential difficulties faced by the students so that we can help to decrease their influence. The solutions are listed as the follows：
　　Get the students to review on what they hear. The elements which result in interference in listening are obvious. With the help of the prediction task， we can motivate the students` interest in the topic， and activate the students to recall more pre-teach essential vocabularies. What’s more， when we preview what is the topic of a talk or a conversation about， many of the relevant words and expressions saved in our brains is “specialized” to evolve us better understand what we’re listening to.
　　The communicative approach to listening classes
　　Ask the students to join or guess what will be discussed from the related materials. Then， brainstorm any vocabulary or ideas connected with the topic. Try to divide the listening materials into shorter sentences to get the students to answer them. Activate the students to finish the gaps in a short summary and identify synonyms or antonyms of key words and phrases.
　　Important listening skills
　　We had better make our students aware of the following strategies to make them effective listeners， As a matter of fact， to develop listening strategies， we should exploit listening texts and tasks we might ask our students to do in order to focus their attention on the content of the texts to understand the texts effectively.