Abstract

Listening is not only one of the basic forms for language communication, but also the first perceptive step during the process of English language learning. However, English listening is a weak aspect of English learning in common university. Currently, the situation of English learning is not as good as we think. Especially for students, not understanding the materials they listen to is the common problem existing among university students. So improving the quality of English listening learning is an indispensably important and urgent task. Krashen is a famous language expert. His Input Hypothesis is aimed to find a best method to improve the input of English learning. This paper adopted his input theory to solve the problems in English listening learning. And find the most appropriate way to acquire English listening input.

Keywords:  Input Hypothesis  English listening learning  Problems in Listening learning  solving methods

摘要

听力不仅是语言交流中的一种基本形式，还是英语学习过程中的首要感知步骤。然而在多数大学中英语听力只是作为一个弱项的存在。目前英语的学习情况并不是像我们想象的一样好，尤其对于学生来说。无法听懂听力材料中的信息已经成为大学生中的一个普遍现象。所以提高英语听力的学习质量已经成为不可或缺的重要任务。克拉申是一位著名的语言学家，他的输入假说旨在发现英语输入的最好方法。本文将运用他的输入假说来解决在听力学习中发现的主要问题，并找出最合适的英语听力输入的方法。

关键词: 输入假说；英语听力学习；听力学习中的问题；解决方法

1.1 Introduction
Second language acquisition is a process of adopting a language by conscious or unconscious learning under natural condition or guidance. There are four basic English learning skills---listening, speaking, reading and writing. Among these four skills, listening is regarded as the basis, and also, listening is viewing as the most difficult part in English learning. From one language itself, the language ability is not complete if people don’t have the ability of listening. Other language skills must also be seriously affected without listening ability. However, there are still some misunderstandings about English listening. For example, people think that listening ability can be improved as long as they do a lot of repeated mechanical listening. This is just an opinion of behaviorism because English listening learners can not find the causes of their poor listening or take the appropriate measures to combine the language form with function study.
Therefore, in order to improve university students’ listening ability, this thesis aims to explore Krashen’s Input Hypothesis and discuss the right ways for English listening learning.