英美文化背景知识与英语听力教学

英美文化背景知识的缺乏、思维方式的差异是影响中国学生英语听力理解能力提高的主要原因,因此,听力教学中注重文化背景知识的传授是相当重要的。本文着重讨论了听力理解与文化背景知识之间的关系,阐明了学生缺乏背景知识对于听力理解的影响,并提出了在听力教学中传授英美文化背景知识的几种方法。

Background Knowledge and Listening Comprehension

The major cause of influencing Chinese students' listening comprehension is the lack of cultural background knowledge and the differences of thinking modes.Therefore,it is of great importance to develop these students' background knowledge when something is listened.This paper discusses the close relationship between background knowledge and listening comprehension,illustrates the influence of background deficiency on students' comprehension,and proposes ways to help students develop background knowledge.