Abstract
Cohesion Theory of Halliday and Hasan has been widely applied in different subjects of College EFL teaching, particularly in reading comprehension, writing and translation practice. It can also be a practical theory for College Listening EFL Teaching. Based on that theory, an empirical research is carried out among the freshmen from two classes in Yangtze University College of Arts and Sciences, and it lasts for 16 weeks. One of the classes is Control Group (CG) and the other is Experimental Group (EG). Both groups have the same amount of exercises from the same teaching materials but with different guidance in class: the subjects in CG are taught in traditional ways while those in EG are trained with the guidance of Cohesion Theory. After the experimental teaching period, the data collected from students’ pre-test and post-test scores is analyzed by the SPSS software program. The pre-test results show that there is no statistically significant difference between the scores of EG and CG before the experiment (P= 0.932>0.05). While the post-test results demonstrate that there is a considerable improvement on the scores of the subjects in EG than that of CG (P=0.009 < 0.05).
Highlights
Listening comprehension is one of the most important abilities for college students in English learning
One of the classes is Control Group (CG) and the other is Experimental Group (EG). Both groups have the same amount of exercises from the same teaching materials but with different guidance in class: the subjects in CG are taught in traditional ways while those in EG are trained with the guidance of Cohesion Theory
Students’ comprehensive listening level and their awareness of textual cohesion are enhanced with the application of cohesive devices, so do their listening comprehension abilities
Summary
Listening comprehension is one of the most important abilities for college students in English learning. During the real process of college English teaching and learning, the effectiveness of EFL listening teaching is not as good as being expected, or even worse. College students’ listening comprehension ability hasn’t been improved remarkably, as well as the teachers’ teaching methods. It is of great significance to improve the students’ listening comprehension ability in EFL teaching. In order to solve this problem, a new way of improving college English listening teaching is analyzed, which is trying to apply the Cohesion Theory to college English listening teaching.
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