A Study On English Listening Comprehension Of The First-Grade Students In Senior High School

English listening is the most important way to absorb and comprehend English knowledge,and it is the foundation of students’ comprehensive English ability.For a long time,under the influence of exam-oriented education,high school students pay more attention to reading than listening and speaking,and many students with excellent English written test scores still have the dilemma of “deaf-mute English”.In recent years,with the reform of college entrance examination and the implementation of the new English curriculum standard for senior high schools(2017 edition),English listening has been paid more and more attention.The first year of senior high school is in the critical period of laying a solid foundation for the whole senior high school and developing good study habits.Moreover,English listening is still a shortcoming of many students,so it is necessary to make a special study on the English listening learning of the first-year students.In this paper,questionnaires and student interviews are used to collect data,130 senior high school students from Chenggong No.1 Middle School in Kunming City,Yunnan Province are taken as research subjects,and SPSS 24.0 is used to make statistical analysis of the questionnaire survey results,including testing the reliability and validity of the data to ensure the reliability and validity of the collected data.Through factor analysis,many measured indexes are converted into several comprehensive indexes to reduce the complexity of problem analysis;Through descriptive statistical analysis readers can understand the basic situation of the investigated students;Through Pearson Product-Moment Correlation,we can understand the correlation degree between several dimensions affecting students’ English listening performances;Through Independent Sample T Test,we can find out which factors are significantly different between students with high and low English listening scores;The qualitative information of the problems encountered in English listening learning can be obtained through interviews with high-score and low-score students,so as to have a comprehensive understanding of the English listening learning situation of the first-year senior high school students at present.Through questionnaires and interviews with students,it is found that the primary factor that causes students’ English listening difficulties is the lack of enough vocabulary,followed by the inability to adapt to the speed of listening,and the lack of strong ability to distinguish sounds in context.English listening teaching methods,effective guidance of listening strategies and training of phonetics and pronunciation all have significant effects on English listening performance.Students’ ability to actively participate in listening class,attention regulation,context awareness,pronunciation discrimination and ability to infer the speaker’s mood and attitude through pronunciation and intonation are the important factors that lead to the difference of students’ listening scores.Through this study,it can be concluded that in order to improve students’ English listening learning,we should pay enough attention to classroom English listening teaching methods,effective listening strategy guidance and pronunciation and intonation training,encourage students to actively participate in classroom listening teaching activities,strengthen context awareness and pronunciation training,and enhance students’ comprehensive English application ability.