A Study On Listening Teaching

The traditional teaching theory as a product of the times has played an important role in the specific historical period. However, the glory of the past can not cover today's dilemma. The traditional teaching theory presents a series of limitations. The theory, which is outdated, lacks interpretation and guidance for practice. Because of the impact of traditional teaching theory system, the teaching practice emerges unhelpful symptom:teaching in accordance with the operation of the plant "produce" students. Teachers become dominator and operator to control students, students are only "vassal" or indispensable "products" during the program running.Curriculum is only interpreted as "runway" by teachers who arrange curriculum with sequential and linear method. Discipline techniques introduced to the teaching have gradually evolved into the educational techniques which puts surveillance on body and spirit "legally". Students'spiritual freedom development is repressed, forced and controlled because of the spiritual degeneration of civilization.Under this background, many scholars began to explore teaching creatively on the basis of reflecting on the drawbacks of traditional teaching. Therefore the study on teaching theory presents a wide range of scenes, emerges lots of teaching concepts and patterns in accordance with the characteristics of the times, which are based on educational needs and helpful to students'freedom and individuality. This will enrich the teaching theory and achieve effective impacts on teaching practices. Study on listening teaching is a kind of exploration based on the reflection on traditional teaching theory. It means that the value of listening will be reappraise and the spirit of listening will be infiltrated into teaching practice,which makes "mutual listening" possible between students and between teachers and students. The study on listening teaching will overcome the persistent and stubborn negative effects of traditional teaching theory to teaching practice.In order to better present the real state and the practical view of listening teaching, this study is closely around four issues including the implication of listening in the cultural context of the East and West, the combination between the true meaning of teaching and the listening spirit, the core idea of listening teaching and teaching practice of listening teaching in the classroom. In this way, the thesis consists of four parts:Part I:At first, the paper explores the original meaning of "listen" from the point of view of Etymology. This is original insight into the nature of "listen". And then "listen" is examined in Eastern and Western cultural context in an attempt to capture the implication of "listen" in Western cultural evolution from "see" to "listen" and the wisdom of "listen" in our extensive and profound oriental culture.Part II:On the basis of reflection on crisis of distortion teaching, the study investigates the true aspirations of listening spirit. In the course of reflection and exploration, paper attempts to find the contradiction between the distortion teaching and the listening spirit as well as the combination between the true teaching and the listening spirit. So a basic judgment that the true teaching is full of listening spirit will clearly present the internal linkage between "listening" and "teaching".Part III:The core idea of listening teaching is the spirit of listening teaching. Understanding and grasping the soul and spirit of listening teaching is the key to implement listening teaching successfully. Based on this consideration, this section discusses the goal view, the process view, evaluation view of listening teaching and teachers and students view. The aim of listening teaching is to cultivate listeners with morality and creativity. Listening teaching is the process in which "mutual listening" exists between students, between teachers and students. Listening teaching evaluation follows "the logic of difference" and puts the priority of differences as the core.Listening teaching makes an attempt to construct the relationship between teachers and students which embodies the concerning of "otherness".Part IV:This section reflects on the traditional teaching practice at first, then describes ideal picture of listening teaching practice and makes major investigation on the realization of effective listening between students, between teachers and students. That will provide the essential idea which is helpful to implement the listening teaching for teachers. However, there are lots of restrictive factors which may make listening teaching encounter a lot of resistance and difficulties in practice. Therefore, the analysis of these restrictive factors is bound to help the listening teaching practice to get out of dilemma.