The Application of Figure-ground Theory in English Teaching 英语论文.docVIP

The Application of Figure-ground Theory in English Teaching Abstract: The figure-ground theory is very important in Cognitive linguistics. It can help students to have a clear shape in their cognitive of English learning. The paper aims to introduce some basic points of view about figure-ground theory and then illustrate the importance of applying the figure-ground theory in our daily communication, English reading and writing or syntax in English teaching. Key words: figure-ground theory; English teaching；cognitive The definition of Figure-ground Segregation has no completely satisfactory up to now. “Still, you can easily switch between the two ways of looking at the picture, especially after longer inspection. What lies behind our inability to see both the vase and the faces at the same time is a phenomenon called figure-ground segregation. This notion was first introduced into psychology by the Danish psychologist Rubin almost a century ago and later integrated into the more comprehensive framework of perceptual organization by the gestalt psychologists.”(Ungerer, 157) Figure杇round organization is a type of perceptual grouping which is a vital necessity in for recognizing objects through vision. In HYPERLINK /wiki/Gestalt_psychologyGestalt psychology it is known as identifying a figure from the background. For example, you see words on a printed paper as the figure and the white sheet as the background. It refers to a cognitive ability to separate elements based upon contrast, that is, dark and light, black and white. Its most famous and common example is probably the faces杤ase drawing that Danish psychologist Edgar Rubin described. There are two stages when perceive an object: the perception of an object as a whole as the first step and a kind of decomposition of the perceived whole into individual properties or attributes as a second (optional) step. The figure is a moving or conceptually movable object whose site, p