An Experimental Study of Promoting College Students’ English Listening Ability with American TV Series

In English teaching, the improvement of listening ability is essential to the comprehensive development of students’ language competence. In recent years, listening comprehension has been an important part of English teaching in colleges. Among the four basic language skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing, listening is the basis of English learning, but it is also regarded as the most difficult one by the students. However, there are many problems in traditional English listening teaching in colleges. Many college students spend a lot of time on their daily study, but they have failed to gain satisfactory effect. English listening teaching with American TV series does not only provide learners with rich audio-visual materials but also shows a variety of authentic contexts for effective learning, so that students can improve their English listening comprehension ability and exercise their English communication ability. Therefore, the study attempts to make an experimental study to promote college students’ English listening ability by adopting American TV series.