先前知识和文本类型对听力理解的影响

Effects of prior knowledge and text types on listening comprehension

实验选取了"圣诞罐"(访谈)和"萨满文化"(新闻报道)两个学生最不熟悉的话题来作为听力材料。结果表明:先前知识对两种话语类型听力理解均有显著促进作用,实验组和控制组听访谈的成绩均好于新闻报道。这些发现对英语听力教学具有启示意义,教师在听力教学过程中应充分利用学生的先前知识来提高听力能力。

The experiment selects 'Christmas pot'(interview) and 'Shaman culture'(News) two topics the students unfamiliar as the listening materials.The results show that: the prior knowledge has a significant role in promoting of two kinds of discourse types of listening comprehension,the experimental group and the control group to listen to the interview results are better than in news reports.These findings have implications for English listening teaching,teachers should make full use of prior knowledge of students to improve their listening ability in the process of listening teaching.