The Influences and Improvement Strategies of the Use of Accurate English Phonetics on English Listening for Chinese University Freshmen

Abstract

Due to less attention to the English phonetics improvements was paid by high school English teaching, many Chinese university freshmen lack of the most basic phonetics knowledge, for example, their verbal continuous reading is not coherent and their incomplete blasting phonetics is not clear, some freshmen even do not know how to spell words correctly according to their phonetics. This situation has made many negative effects on China’s university English EFL teaching, especially for their improvement of listening comprehension ,but if both teachers and freshmen are aware of this problems, the university English classroom teaching can be effectively improved.