Abstract: This study is aimed to discuss the application of schema theory to English listening teaching in junior high school.The author applies the method—construct schema and use schema to verify whether sun dongmei’s conclusion that the application of schema theory to college English listening teaching is very effective is right.In order to know results about the traditional listening class and the experimental class,the author makes two tests to collect and analyze the data.The first test will be given to students before the experimental class to collect their scores .The test will be given after the experimental class .And then we will use spss19.0 to analyze the data accurately. The conclusion is that the application of schema theory effectively improve the students’ English listening,which is the same as sun dongmei’s conclusion.

Key word: Listening teaching, Schema theory，construct schema,use schema

CONTENTS

Abstract

摘要

1. Literature Review .6

1.1Schema Theory

 1.1.1The Definition of Schema

 1.1.2The Categories of Schema 

 1.1.3Features of Schema

 1.2 Researches on Application of Schema Theory

  1.2.1 Researches Abroad

  1.2.2 Researches at Home

1.3Three Modes of Listening Teaching under Schema Theory

 1.3.1The Bottom-up Processing

 1.3.2The Top-down Processing

 1.3.3The Interactive Processing

1.4The Roles of Schema Theory in Listening Teaching

2. Methodology.10

2.1The Hypotheses

2.2 Subjects

2.3 Instruments 

2.4 Procedures

2.5Teaching Methods Use in Experiment

3. Results and Discussion12

3.1Results and Discussion from Listening Test

3.2Results and Discussion from Questionnaires

4. Conclusion14

Bibliography.16

Appendix I17

Appendix II.18