Abstract English listening is a very important skill and an important measure of students’ language ability and language level。 Cohesion and coherence theory of discourse analysis are of great significance in improving English listening teaching and students’ English listening。 In the process of listening teaching, teachers should help students to improve listening comprehension level with the knowledge of discourse cohesion and coherence。 This paper studies the characteristics of listening comprehension, discusses the researches and current situations of listening teaching home and abroad, finds out some problems in high school listening teaching in China, and explains the importance of cultivation of students’ awareness of discourse cohesion and coherence in improving students’ ability of listening。75193

Key words: high school English listening teaching; cohesion; coherence

摘要英语听力是衡量学生语言能力和语言水平的重要标准，是一项非常重要的技能。语篇分析理论的衔接与连贯理论对英语听力教学的改进和学生英语听力的提高具有非常重要的指导意义。教师在听力教学过程中应利用语篇衔接和连贯的有关知识, 帮助学生掌握听力策略提高听力水平。本文研究了英语听力理解的特征，探讨了国内外对听力教学的研究和现状，发现了目前我国高中英语听力教学中存在的问题，以语篇衔接与连贯理论为基础，说明培养学生语篇衔接和连贯意识对提高听力能力的重要性。

毕业论文关键词：高中英语听力教学；衔接；连贯

Contents

1。 Introduction。1

2。 Literature Review。。。3

2。 1Discourse cohesion and coherence。3

2。 2 Features of listening comprehension。4 

2。 3 Researches on listening teaching。。。5 

3。 Current Situations of Listening Teaching in High School。。7 

3。1 Less emphasis on listening teaching。 。7

3。2 Absence of discourse theory in listening teaching。。。。。8 

4。 Application of Cohesion and Coherence Theory in High School English Listening Teaching。。9

4。1 Use coherence theory to predict textual pattern。9

4。2 Use cohesion theory to form textual links13

5．Conclusion15

Works Cited。。。17

1。 Introduction 

As one of the four basic language skills students are bound to master when learning a foreign language and an important means of communication in people’s daily life, listening comprehension skill has always been the focus of foreign language teaching。 However, nowadays high school students are weak in listening。 Their listening competence is lower than the competence of reading and writing。 At present, there are still a lot of problems with high school English listening teaching。 For example, students and teachers pay little attention to listening, so listening teaching is far from efficient。 

Many experts and scholars home and abroad have achieved some success in listening teaching。 O’Malley and Chamot pointed out that listening cognition strategy is prediction, reasoning, taking notes and the use of background knowledge。 (O’Malley and Chamot 109)The aim is to meet the purpose of the training。 However, their conclusions were not consistent。 The studies on listening teaching still need improving。 For students’ difficulty in listening comprehension, the writer of this thesis thinks one of the important reasons is the lack of adequate knowledge of discourse cohesion and coherence, thus put forward the research question of this paper: how to apply the knowledge of discourse cohesion and coherence theory to high school English listening teaching。 This paper discusses the motif mainly from two aspects: cohesion theory and coherence theory。 论文网