ABSTRACT
Non-language obstacles refer to barriers that have nothing to do with language, yet they have much eect on listening ability. There are two aspects: psychological obstacles and cultural obstacles
1 Psychological obstacles When doing listening practice, some students can’t focus their attention, and are very nervous. This is a type of psychological obstacles. Inattention, mainly refers to the student body is sitting with the mind absent in listening practice. Even if this situation only lasts for a few seconds, the input of the listening material can be interrupted. It will naturally aect listening ability. Nervousness mainly refers the blank in the mind due to the tension in the tests. Students can’t digest the input content, and worse is, listening material cannot be input into the brain.
