A New Model Of Listening Teaching For Senior English Based On Cooperative Principle In Pragmatics And Discourse Theory

As one of the four basic linguistic techniques, which a foreign-language learner should acquire, listening is a form of input, as well as an important means of daily communication therefore it has been a focus for foreign language teaching, on which experts and scholars have experimented, yielding lots of good results. This thesis tends to explore listening teaching from a completely new angle: to understand one type of listening exercises in the form of dialogue by means of reasoning the meaning of dialogues where speakers disobey the cooperative principle; to infer, judge and comprehend the speaker's intention, grasp the main idea, predict the following part of another form of listening exercise in the form of monologue through analyzing the cohesive devices, so as to develop students' listening techniques and improve their listening capability.The paper consists of three parts the first of which talks about the concept of listening, the psychological characteristic of listening and the traditional models of listening comprehension, as well as some factors that influence listening. Then, it turns to the analysis of the problems which occur in present senior school English-listening-teaching. It explains the demands of listening comprehension for senior students according to the new standards of the senior English syllabus; then it talks about the desired goal for improving students' listening capability. The second part the paper offers the main idea of this paper: the new model of listening-teaching for senior English. First it discusses the principles of this new model: the cooperative principles and discourse theory. Then it points out that the way to derive the meaning of dialogues where speakers disobey the cooperative principles can do great help for students to comprehend the dialogues in listening tests; that the cohesion and coherence which are part of the discourse theory may be very helpful for students to understand monologue in listening exercises as well, all of which inspire the author to think about a new model of listening-teaching for senior English. After that the paper makes a brief introduction to cooperative principles, and to the reasoning of the meaning of a dialogue. Following that it expounds the strategies of this new model: the stuff strategy and the technique strategy, after which it elaborates the detailed ways in which this new model is put into use. The students are trained in different ways when facing different listening materials, however, they have something in common: the ideology of integrated language concept in listening classes, where a teacher not only practices listening, but engages in other activities, such as reading, writing, and speaking, the final goal of which is to improve the students' listening capability. The third part gives an account of the experimental plan and the...