The applied talent cultivating is the objective and survival foundation of the applied-type undergraduate colleges and universities.English Listening course is the main and difficult points in English major teaching,and isalso one of the important indicators of measuring the application-oriented foreign language talent.With the theory basis of scaffolding instructional model,this paper explores the application of five types of scaffolding instructional model in English listening teaching under the background of cultivating the applied talent,such as scaffold setting,problem situations creating,independently exploring,collaborative learning and effect evaluating,which can improve the quality of English listening teaching by changing the current situation,so as to really strengthenthe students'English listening ability.