图式理论对高中生英语听力成绩的影响研究.doc

Chapter One Introduction Chapter One Introduction Although the listening comprehension skill is very important in English communication, the high school students‘ listening skill is very so weak that they cannot meet the current foreign communication needs. There must be a new way to change the present traditional listening class teaching. The Background of the Paper English as an international language plays a vital role in the communication between China and the rest of the world in many fields such as culture, politics, economy and arts. The English language communication skills consists four dimensions: listening, speaking, reading and writing. We can see from the sequence that the listening skill as a receptive skill is among the top important. So it is an urgent task for English teachers to explore an efficient way for students to cultivate listening interest, build the listening confidence and establish a self-study system for the life-long English study. It is said that children can learn his mother tongue by listening before speaking or writing, so the input of a kind of the second language can also follow this sequence. Rivers (1978) has once said that, “Speaking does not of itself constitute communication unless what is being said is comprehended by another person”????. It really spotlights the importance of the listening comprehension in the communication and the learning of a kind of language, without proper understanding of the meaning both the learning and the communication cannot begin. It is universally acknowledged that the listening comprehension first as a component of language teaching appeared in the masterpiece of James Asher in about late 1970s. But at the beginning the listening comprehension process is just regarded as a passive receptive process, it became the most ignored language ability. In the traditional listening comprehension class, a teacher is in charge, the rest of the students are totally in charged. ???? Rivers, W. M. A Practi