Listening comprehension is not only helpful for students’ learning ability, but also related to students’ scope of knowledge. According to the schema theory, listeners' knowledge plays an important role on the u...Listening comprehension is not only helpful for students’ learning ability, but also related to students’ scope of knowledge. According to the schema theory, listeners' knowledge plays an important role on the understanding of what they have listened. This paper aims to analyze the listening teaching in high school class under the schema theory.展开更多
The traditional way of teaching listening comprehension in China usually ignores pre-listening activities and as a result, some problems occur. An example is the high level of anxiety and low level of input. This pape...The traditional way of teaching listening comprehension in China usually ignores pre-listening activities and as a result, some problems occur. An example is the high level of anxiety and low level of input. This paper explores the importance of pre-listening activities and suggests some pre-listening activities as a solution to the problems.展开更多
As we enter the 21st century, acquisition of vocabulary has assumed a more important role, and as some would argue, it has assumed the central role in learning a second language. On one hand, students have a strong de...As we enter the 21st century, acquisition of vocabulary has assumed a more important role, and as some would argue, it has assumed the central role in learning a second language. On one hand, students have a strong desire to improve their English level in order to make them more adaptable when they step into this competitive society after graduation. On the other hand, most students are facing a great difficulty in learning a large number of vocabularies though they do spend a lot of time and energy on it. Also, recent researches show that students don＇t like the classroom that is still teacher-centered and lecture-based. They want to be more involved in class and more responsible for their own studies. Hence, it is important to equip students with necessary strategies for dealing with vocabulary learning activities. In this paper, three strategies are recommended： extensive listening ＆ reading and contextual guesswork, communicative activities and group-work and the use of dictionary.展开更多
文摘Listening comprehension is not only helpful for students’ learning ability, but also related to students’ scope of knowledge. According to the schema theory, listeners' knowledge plays an important role on the understanding of what they have listened. This paper aims to analyze the listening teaching in high school class under the schema theory.
文摘The traditional way of teaching listening comprehension in China usually ignores pre-listening activities and as a result, some problems occur. An example is the high level of anxiety and low level of input. This paper explores the importance of pre-listening activities and suggests some pre-listening activities as a solution to the problems.
文摘As we enter the 21st century, acquisition of vocabulary has assumed a more important role, and as some would argue, it has assumed the central role in learning a second language. On one hand, students have a strong desire to improve their English level in order to make them more adaptable when they step into this competitive society after graduation. On the other hand, most students are facing a great difficulty in learning a large number of vocabularies though they do spend a lot of time and energy on it. Also, recent researches show that students don＇t like the classroom that is still teacher-centered and lecture-based. They want to be more involved in class and more responsible for their own studies. Hence, it is important to equip students with necessary strategies for dealing with vocabulary learning activities. In this paper, three strategies are recommended： extensive listening ＆ reading and contextual guesswork, communicative activities and group-work and the use of dictionary.
