A Teaching Plan Of Intermediate Chinese Listening Teaching As A Foreign Language Based On Schema Theory

Listening is a language skill that is most commonly used in daily life. It’s also one of the important means that people acquire during foreign language learning. In teaching Chinese as a foreign language, listening, speaking, reading and writing are the four basic skills of language. Reading and writing are written behaviors and indirect communication activities, while listening and speaking are oral behaviors and direct communication activities. The four skills are interdependent and promote mutually. And the most important purpose of our foreign language teaching is to enable students to communicate as soon as possible. We need to have the ability of listening first. Only when we can understand, we can deal with what sound signals we received. Just when there is language input, a language output will come true. And achieve the ultimate goal of communication.Chinese listening teaching as a foreign language is always embarrassed. As a course of a language skill practice, Chinese listening teaching as a foreign language should be the stage that all the students go through. But no one is interested in the boring class. As a long time, listening comprehension is considered to be a passive perception process. The conventional mode of listening class is to talk about the new word, to put up the recording and to check the answers. In the process of listening, the students are passive recepters. Without any background knowledge, this listening teaching put a serious impact on the initiative and enthusiasm of the students. It cannot improve the students’ listening skills and capacity, and it is also far away from the purpose of the Chinese listening teaching. Actually listening needs active participation of the listeners and should be a mental process that the linguistic knowledge and background knowledge interact mutally. Schema Theory provides a strong theoretical basis for the listening teaching and guides it. In the process of listening comprehension, listeners should activate their own background knowledge, and use them to understand the new article. Listeners’ Schema influenced the content and extent of the article that they can understand. Schema activation is the key to open the listeners’ background and the bridge of understanding successfully.This paper reviewed how Schema Theory is applied both at home and abroad as well, and introduced Schema and Schema Theory. Focusing on Schema Theory, it described the relationship between Schema Theory and listening teaching. Chinese listening teaching as a foreign language is divided into three stages. They are pre-listening, while-listening, and post-listening. The teacher’s main task is to help students create a new Schema or activate the existing Schema before listening; to guide students to use listening skills and strategies to accelerate students’ understanding of the materials while listening; and to consolidate the knowledge by listening&speaking combination and listening&writing combination after listening. The biggest feature of this teaching model is to emphasis on the role of background knowledge in listening comprehension, and to pay attention to pre-listening and while-listening. It can improve the effect of listening class and make up for the deficiencies of traditional teaching mode.This paper focused on introducing a teaching plan of intermediate Chinese listening teaching as a foreign language based on Schema Theory. It is designed from"What movie do you like?" in "Easy Chinese-Chinese intermediate listening"(the first volume). Based on Schema Theory, this paper also put forwad the revelations of listening teaching.