A Study On The Application Of Cohesion Theory In The Teaching Of College English Listening

Listening plays an essential and fundamental role in English learning andteaching. It is also a difficult part in CET-4. Traditional English class emphasizes theamount of listening input and little attention is paid to the nurturing of students’listening ability or the English listening teaching theory. However, cohesion theorycan help people understand the meaning of the whole text. So this article researchesthe impact of cohesion theory on Teaching College English listening and attempt togive some enlightenment in TCEL (teaching college English listening).This article studies the listening teaching from the perspective of cohesion theory.Firstly, previous years’ listening parts from2010to2014of CET-4are chosen aslanguage materials, and then the author carries out the analysis, and obtains thefrequency of each cohesive device distributed in the listening test. Subsequently, thenon-English major students from Changchun Normal University are chosen as theexperimental objects. They are from two classes and they have approximate gradesbefore the test. One class is taught by introducing the cohesion theory as experimentalgroup, and the other class is the comparison one, the students of which still receivelectures on English listening teaching with the traditional teaching method. Threemonths later, students from the two classes are tested. Then the author analyzes theexperiment results, and draws the conclusion. Questionnaires and interviews, servingas auxiliary methods, are employed to make a further understanding on students’learning situation and psychological situation in two different kinds of teaching ways.Finally the statistical analysis is made by SPSS, qualitative and quantitative analysesare also used comprehensively.Through the analysis of the experiment above, the author draws the conclusionthat the following cohesive devices frequently occur in the CET-4listening part, andthe frequency of each cohesive devices from high to low is: reference, conjunction,lexical cohesion, ellipsis, substitution, and implicit cohesion. Reference manifestsitself more than others. What’s more, listening teaching which uses the cohesion theory is more effective than the traditional teaching in raising the students’ scoresand the application of cohesion theory in TCEL can enhance the students’enthusiasm,At the same time, their listening ability can also be promoted. The process of students’listening level promotion is closely related to teachers’teaching.