News reading has become an indispensable part in the curriculum of graduate and undergraduate students and English majors in particular. Owing to its distinctive features, journalistic English brings diversity, initia...News reading has become an indispensable part in the curriculum of graduate and undergraduate students and English majors in particular. Owing to its distinctive features, journalistic English brings diversity, initiative, motivation and passion for students learning it. The authors in this paper will tentatively probe into the effectiveness of learning English through news reading and listening.展开更多
Schema theory has strong effects on our comprehension and has profound influences on EFL reading and listening.Both formal schema and content schema affects our understanding and interpretation of the text greatly. Ba...Schema theory has strong effects on our comprehension and has profound influences on EFL reading and listening.Both formal schema and content schema affects our understanding and interpretation of the text greatly. Based on schema theory, ways like developing vocabulary, reading relevant materials in learners' first language, introducing different types of text are useful to develop background knowledge, thus will facilitate reading and listening comprehension.展开更多
文摘News reading has become an indispensable part in the curriculum of graduate and undergraduate students and English majors in particular. Owing to its distinctive features, journalistic English brings diversity, initiative, motivation and passion for students learning it. The authors in this paper will tentatively probe into the effectiveness of learning English through news reading and listening.
文摘Schema theory has strong effects on our comprehension and has profound influences on EFL reading and listening.Both formal schema and content schema affects our understanding and interpretation of the text greatly. Based on schema theory, ways like developing vocabulary, reading relevant materials in learners' first language, introducing different types of text are useful to develop background knowledge, thus will facilitate reading and listening comprehension.
