Background Knowledge Association and Text Construction in News-listening
Xia Ri-guang · Media in Foreign Language Instruction · 2004
This thesis attempts to adopt the theory of word association which was held by Saussure,the founder of modern linguistic science,and to have an association about the words of background knowledge in the English news text in order to help the decoder,on one hand,to distinguish the orientation and preview the contents of the news,on the other hand,to lighten the burden and enlarge the capacity of memory . If so,the listener will construct the news text correctly and decode it quickly. Based on the analysis,the problem on how to improve the ability in English news background knowledge association in the process of teaching and learning has also been studied.