Application of Multimodal Discourse Theory to Enhance English Major..

Abstract

This study aims to enhance English majors’ listening competence by applying the visual, auditory, tactile resources to listening teaching. The author analyzes the present research situation on multimodal discourse analysis by analyzing problems  in English listening teaching and explaining how to apply multimodal resources to English listening teaching from different perspectives. By reducing the difficulty of listening materials, changing the monomodal listening into multimodal one, it aims to enhance students’ interest in learning. Research reveals that multimodal listening teaching modal can cultivate students’ interest in learning English and enhance students’ learning enthusiasm, initiative and participation. Meanwhile, it can also lead to the improvement of comprehensive language input and English majors’ listening competence.  

Key Words：English listening competence   multimodal   teaching mode

 摘  要

    本研究旨在把視覺、聽覺、觸覺等多種符號(hào)資源運(yùn)用到聽力教學(xué)，以提高學(xué)生聽力能力。研究通過降低聽力材料的難度，來將單純的聲音模態(tài)聽力變成有趣、生動(dòng)、可視的多模態(tài)聽力，從而提高學(xué)生的學(xué)習(xí)興趣。筆者對(duì)多模態(tài)話語分析的研究現(xiàn)狀及英語聽力教學(xué)中的問題進(jìn)行了分析，并從不同方面闡釋了如何將多模態(tài)資源運(yùn)用于英語聽力教學(xué)中。研究表明多模態(tài)聽力教學(xué)模式能激發(fā)學(xué)生的學(xué)習(xí)興趣，增強(qiáng)學(xué)生的學(xué)習(xí)積極性、主動(dòng)性和參與性，此外，還有助于提高語言輸入的“可理解”率，提高英語專業(yè)生的聽力能力。 

關(guān)鍵詞：英語聽力能力  多模態(tài)  教學(xué)模式

 

Contents 

1 Introduction1

2 Current Studies of English Listening Teaching2

2.1 Current Situation of English Listening Teaching2

2.2 Problems Existing in English Listening Teaching2

3 Multimodal Discourse Theory3

3.1 Definition3

3.2 Present Research on Multimodal Discourse Theory4

4 Application of Multimodal Discourse Theory in English Listening Teaching5

  4.1 Multimodal Materials Applied in English Listening Teaching6

4.1.1 Graphic Materials6

4.1.2 Video Materials7

  4.2 Multimodal Methods Applied in English Listening Teaching8

4.2.1 Before-class Activities8

4.2.2 In-class Activities9

4.2.3 After-class Activities11

5 Conclusion12                                                                                

Works Cited13

Acknowledgments