College English Listening Teaching based on Schema Theory

Schema theory is a theory that cognitive psychologists explain human cognitive psychology process. Listening comprehension is the result of the interaction between the existed knowledge and input information in the listeners' mind, which is the interaction mode of "bottom-up" and "top-down". In the process of college English listening teaching, building languages and schemas' contents, activating existing schemas to improve the students' initiative and teaching effect. On the basis of the schema theory, this paper studies the schema theory application, classifies the schema in listening teaching, puts forward the enlightenment that the schema theory to college English teaching, specifically including: cultivating understanding ability and prediction ability, enriching the schema of each teaching link and cultivating culture background knowledge and so on. The research results of this paper enrich the listening teaching method, which can help students to improve their English listening comprehension ability.