Abstract-In this paper, we conduct research on the reform and practice of English listening teaching for the application-guided universities. In the recent years at home and abroad for a lot of work on listening teaching, has made some breakthrough. Through the study of literature, however, we found that compared with the listening teaching research abroad, our country most of the research is descriptive, intervention studies is less, so the study should be further expand the breadth and depth. Under this background and the concepts of the application-guided universities, we propose the novel English listening teaching paradigm for teachers. We want to be in fully draw lessons from the foreign advanced listening teaching on the basis of theory, model, combined with the actual teaching situation in our country development suited to China's foreign language classroom listening teaching methods.