Developing The Senior Students' English Listening Comprehension From Background Knowledge Perspective

How to develop high school students'listening capacity has long been a heated argument in English teaching and research at home and aboard. This thesis discusses the contradictive situation between the importance of listening comprehension in English teaching and learning in senior high school and students'poor capacity of listening comprehension. The researcher is trying to demonstrate that background knowledge is a significant factor that influences senior high school students'capacity of listening comprehension by quoting from many linguists and try to prove the hypothesis in the forms of questionnaires and tests.After the hypothesis was proved, the researcher took some measures to train the students in order to improve their capacity of listening comprehension. Again I try to test the validity of background knowledge training by questionnaires and tests. Through data analysis, it is proved that background knowledge training is helpful to improve students'capacity of listening comprehension.