| Abstract | 第1-9页 |
| 摘要 | 第9-10页 |
| Introduction | 第10-14页 |
| Chapter 1 Literature Review | 第14-25页 |
| ·The definition of listening or listening comprehension | 第14-16页 |
| ·Former scholars' studies on listening comprehension | 第16-23页 |
| ·A psycholinguistic perspective | 第16-17页 |
| ·A cognitive perspective | 第17-22页 |
| ·A pragmatic perspective | 第22-23页 |
| ·Relevance theory | 第23-24页 |
| ·Summary | 第24-25页 |
| Chapter 2 The Nature of Listening and Current Teaching of English Listening in China | 第25-29页 |
| ·The importance of listening | 第25-26页 |
| ·The characteristics of listening comprehension | 第26-28页 |
| ·Current teaching of English listening in China | 第28-29页 |
| ·Summary | 第29页 |
| Chapter 3 Relevance Theory: Its Nature and Role in Listening Comprehension | 第29-44页 |
| ·Interpretation of relevance theory | 第29-37页 |
| ·The principle of relevance | 第30-33页 |
| ·The implicature and inference in the communication | 第33-36页 |
| ·Relevance and utterance interpretation | 第36-37页 |
| ·The role of relevance theory in listening strategies | 第37-44页 |
| ·Deepening the recognition towards the contextual effects of listening materials | 第37-40页 |
| ·Enhancing the utterance interpretation function in listening | 第40-41页 |
| ·Improving the interpretation of utterance discourse coherence | 第41-42页 |
| ·Improving the understanding of utterance styles | 第42-44页 |
| ·Summary | 第44页 |
| Chapter 4 Theoretical Guidance of Relevance Theory in the Teaching of English Listening | 第44-52页 |
| ·Atheoretical foundation for the selection of listening materials | 第45-47页 |
| ·Linguistic appropriateness of listening materials | 第45-46页 |
| ·Contextual appropriateness of listening materials | 第46-47页 |
| ·Content appropriateness of listening materials | 第47页 |
| ·A guide for the design of teaching strategies of listening class | 第47-51页 |
| ·The identification of the goals and expectations of teaching strategies of listening class | 第48页 |
| ·The design and construction of relevant context | 第48-49页 |
| ·The design of strategies to enhance students' ability | 第49-50页 |
| ·The improvement of the learner's comprehension of styles of the discourse | 第50-51页 |
| ·Summary | 第51-52页 |
| Chapter 5 The Application of Relevance Theory to Different Phases of Listening Lesson | 第52-59页 |
| ·Pre-listening phase | 第52-54页 |
| ·While-listening phase | 第54-55页 |
| ·After-listening phase | 第55页 |
| ·An attentive sample of the application of relevance theory to the teaching of English listening | 第55-58页 |
| ·Summary | 第58-59页 |
| Conclusion | 第59-64页 |
| Appendix Ⅰ: | 第64-66页 |
| Appendix Ⅱ: | 第66-67页 |
| Bibliography | 第67-72页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第72-73页 |
| List of Published Papers | 第73-74页 |
| 学位论文评阅及答辩情况表 | 第74页 |
