声明
摘要
Abstract
Contents
Chapter One Introduction
1.1 The Rationale or reason for the research
1.2 Method of the research
1.3 The significance of the present research
1.4 Researeh questions
1.5 The Organization of this thesis
Chapter Two Literature Review
2.1 The Survey of context in English listening comprehension
2.2 Halliday’s study on context theory
2.3 Previous research
Chapter Three Theoretical framework of the research
3.1 Context of culture
3.1.1 Ideology
3.1.2 Genre theory
3.2 Context of situation
3.2.1 Different views on register
3.2.2 Halliday’s register theory
3.2.3 The Characteristics of register
3.2.4 The Relevance of register theory and its characteristics to listening comprehension
3.2.5 The Relationship between context of situation and listening comprehension
3.3 The Relationship between context of culture and listening comprehension
3.4 Relations between context and meaning
3.5 Methods of applying context theory to teaching English listening
3.5.1 Prediction
3.5.2 The Problem in traditional teaching of English listening
Chapter Four The Application of context theory to the teaching of listening comprehension in English
4.1 Analysis of the listening materials in the experiment
4.2 Experiment of context theory applied to listening comprehension
4.2.1 Subjeets
4.2.2 Instruments
4.2.3 Variables in the study
4.2.4 Independent variables
4.2.5 Experiment procedures
4.3 The Result of the experiment
Chapter Five Conclusion
5.1 Research findings
5.2 Limitations
5.3 Future research
References
Acknowledgments
Appendix