Research On Integrated Course Teaching In College English From The Perspective Of Text Linguistics

College English Integrated Course is a course which trains the comprehensive skills, and its task is to teach systematic basic language knowledge (pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, textual structure, language function/ notion, etc.) and develop the students' basic ability to communicate in language, as well as guide the students' way of study and give a solid foundation for the higher grades.The author of this thesis has made an investigation about college English teaching which is facing the undergraduates of Grade 2003 in her own college. The result reveals that in most parts of our country, people are still adopting the traditional teaching method, which is a 'bottom-up' teaching pattern with the thread of word—sentence—paragraph—text. It focuses on the drill of grammar structures , words and phrases, neglecting the language production. The teacher plays a dominant role in class, and the students hardly have opportunities to take part in the language practice and develop their language skills, not even the training of communicative skill and logical thinking.In the light of this situation, the author of this thesis has made an experimental teaching reform in the elementary stage of college English teaching, and constructed Teaching Model of Tri-capability Training.Teaching Model of Tri-capability Training is based on College English Syllabus, and guided by the theories of text linguistics and schema theory. It is a 'top-down' teaching model, which is completely against the traditional method. According to schema theory, the students' ability of reading comprehension is decided by three schemata, namely,language schema, content schema and shape schema. Teaching Model of Tri-capability Training has changed the traditional language teaching method, putting shape schema and content schema ahead of language schema. It divides English teaching into pre-class, in-class and post-class three stages, adopting text analysis teaching.The research significance of this Thesis lies in: Teaching by text analysis is to handle the text as a whole. It leads the students to go beyond the period of word-for-word recognition and translation, understand and acquire as much as possible information which the text conveys. During the process of English teaching, besides the students' language skills—listening, speaking, reading, writing and translating, Teaching Model of Tri-capability Training places a great emphasis on the students' ability in communication, and their ability in logical thinking. Therefore, Teaching Model of Tri-capability Training completely accords with the requirement of College English Syllabus and meets the demand of the modern times.This Thesis employs the method of induction-analysis. It is based on the theoretical knowledge of the text and schema theory. The combination of theory and examples is the developing device of the dissertation. It applies the theoretical knowledge into the concrete teaching activities and guides teaching.