内容图式对中国大学生二语听力理解的影响

The Effect of Content Schema on Chinese College Students' L2 Listening Comprehension

听力是二语学习四项基本技能中非常重要的一项。尽管中国的英语教育越来越重视听力教学,但学生的听力水平仍是弱项,因此语言教学专家、学者对听力理解的研究从听力材料特点、听力任务、听者自身等角度出发,总结了一些影响听力水平的因素及其作用,但已有研究数量仍然较少,且局限于个别因素,跨学科研究较为缺乏。本研究将图式理论中话题熟悉度与二语听力理解能力结合起来,以实证性方式探讨内容图式对二语学习者听力语篇理解产生的潜在影响。

Among the four basic skills, Listening is one of the most important ones in second lan- guage learning. L2 education in China has put much emphasis on listening, but the listening proficiency of Chinese students is still far from satisfaction. Therefore, the study on listening comprehension is of great importance and value. Linguists and scholars have been working on the factors that may influence L2 listening comprehension from the perspectives of text characteristics, task features, individual differ- ences. They have investigated the relationship between these factors and L2 listening comprehension. However, the relevant studies are limited in quantity and confined to single factor instead of multiple ones, let alone cross-disciplinary studies. This paper reports on an empirical study of the role of topic fa- miliarity in L2 listening comprehension.