Open AccessOn the Teaching of English Listening
Author(s) -
Lu Yin
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
theory and practice in language studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2053-0692
pISSN - 1799-2591
DOI - 10.4304/tpls.2.2.407-410
Subject(s) - active listening , psychology , computer science , linguistics , mathematics education , communication , philosophy
Language is a socializing tool. The fundamental purpose of English teaching is training the students to put English into practical social use. As the most common medium to acquire knowledge and develop a sensation for a language, accurate listening, is mandatory before accurate speaking. Only when the listener has listened to the instruction correctly, could the listener do according to the instruction; this demonstrates the social function of language