An Exploratory Analysis Of The Role Of Schema Theory In Listening Comprehension Of Discourse In TCSL

According to the Schema theory in psycholinguistics and the issue we found in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language class, we attend to perform some experiments to prove that in listening teaching class, using Schema theory can improve students' listening comprehension. These experiments last two months and the results did prove that during listening class, stimulating students' previous knowledge could improve their discourse comprehension and their listening.