图式理论与大学英语新闻听力教学

论文摘要

目前,无论在专业英语或大学英语的听力教学中,都十分强调收听英语新闻广播。英语新闻已成为整个听力教学中必不可少的部分。英语新闻给广大英语学习者提供了一个学习外语的很好的机会。英语新闻内容丰富并且易于得到。收听这些新闻不仅能够提高学习者的发音、语调,还能够帮助他们了解世界上发生的大事,开阔他们的视野。然而,不论是对学生的学和老师的教来说,英语新闻听力都是一个难题。本文笔者试图将图式理论应用于英语新闻听力中,以期克服这一难题,提高学生的听力水平。本文首先对图式理论和听力的研究进行了回顾。然后从三种图式的角度分析了新闻听力的特点,最后通过调查问卷和访谈的形式找出了学生和老师在新闻听力中存在的问题并结合图式理论给出了提高新闻听力的建议。本文主要试图回答以下问题：学生和老师在英语新闻听力中的困难是什么?图示理论对于英语新闻听力的影响是什么?学生如何利用三种图示提高他们的英语新闻听力水平?本研究通过问卷和访谈两种方式收集数据,参加问卷的是泰山学院英语专业2009级的130名大二学生。其结果表明了学生听不懂英语新闻听力主要是因为缺乏相关的图式。笔者分析了其中原因,并提出了帮助学生提高英语新闻听力水平的建议。

论文目录

• Abstract
• 摘要
• List of Abbreviations
• Chapter One Introduction
• 1.1 The Importance of News Listening
• 1.2 The Significance of the Study
• 1.3 Overview of the Thesis
• Chapter Two Literature Review
• 2.1 Schema Theory
• 2.1.1 An Overview of the Schema Theory
• 2.1.2 The Definitions of Schemata
• 2.1.3 Classification of Schemata
• 2.1.4 Limitations of Schema Theory
• 2.2 Literature Review on Listening
• 2.2.1 The Previous Study on Listening
• 2.2.2 Listening Comprehension
• 2.2.2.1 Definition of Listening Comprehension
• 2.2.2.2 Nature of Listening Comprehension
• 2.2.3 Listening Process
• 2.2.3.1 Bottom-up Processing
• 2.2.3.2 Top-down Processing
• 2.2.3.3 Interactive Processing
• 2.3 The application of Schema Theory to Listening
• Chapter College English News Listening and Three Schemata
• 3.1 The Definition of News
• 3.2 Three Schemata in English News Listening
• 3.2.1 Linguistic Schema
• 3.2.1.1 Use of Small and Concrete Words
• 3.2.1.2 Use of New Words
• 3.2.1.3 Loanwords
• 3.2.1.4 Using the Abbreviations
• 3.2.1.5 Fashionable Words in English News
• 3.2.1.6 Frequently Used tenses and Aspects
• 3.2.2 Content Schema
• 3.2.3 Formal Schema
• Chapter Four An Experimental Study on English News Listening
• 4.1 Research Objective
• 4.2 Subjects
• 4.3 Instruments
• 4.4 Results and Discussions of the Questionnaire and the Interview
• Chapter Five Conclusion
• 5.1 Major Findings
• 5.1.1 Poor Linguistic Ability
• 5.1.1.1 Poor Phonetic Knoweldge
• 5.1.1.2 Lacking a Large Scale of Vocabulary
• 5.1.2 Deficient Schema Preparation and Background Information
• 5.1.2.1 Lacking Schema Preparation
• 5.1.2.2 Lacking Background Information
• 5.1.3 Psychological Obstacle
• 5.2 The Limitations of the Study
• 5.3 The Implications for the teaching of college English News Listening
• 5.3.1 Improving Student's Linguistic Ability
• 5.3.1.1 Knowing the Phonetic Difference and Overcoming the Phonetic Obstacle
• 5.3.1.2 Memorizing the News Vocabulary
• 5.3.2 Having Generous Background Information
• 5.3.2.1 Mastering the News Structure and Understanding the News Lead
• 5.3.2.2 Grasping the Characteristics of Various Types of Information
• 5.3.3 Encouraging Students to Use the Strategy of Guessing
• 5.3.3.1 Guessing from the News Lead
• 5.3.3.2 Guessing from the Key Words
• 5.3.3.3 Guessing from Discourse Markers
• 5.3.4 Intensive Listening,Extensive Listening,and Stenography
• 5.3.5 Listening to English News from the Easy to the Difficult
• 5.3.6 Having Good Psychological Quality
• Bibliography
• Appendix Ⅰ
• Appendix Ⅱ
• Acknowledgements
• Publications
• 学位论文评阅及答辩情况表