英语听力培养多集中在认知和元认知策略的培训方面,强调听者多层面上的自我规约,与听的活动本身的真实性、生动性、趣味性越走越远。本文探讨英语听者的预见和推断能力的培养,并强调这种能力的培养应该建立在听的活动的真实性上。 English listening training focuses more on the training of cognitive and metacognitive strategies, emphasizing listeners’ self-regulation at many levels, and further and further away from the authenticity, vividness and interest of the listening activities themselves. This article explores the development of English listeners’ anticipation and inference ability, and emphasizes that the cultivation of this ability should be based on the authenticity of listening activities.