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摘 要... iv paper51.com 1. Introduction. 1 内容来自www.paper51.com 2. Homonymy. 1 copyright paper51.com 2.1 The definition of homonymy. 1 paper51.com 2.2 Three causes for the formation of homonymy in English. 2 内容来自论文无忧网 www.paper51.com 2.2.1 Converging sound-development 2 内容来自论文无忧网 www.paper51.com 2.2.2 Diverging sense- development 3 http://www.paper51.com 2.2.3 Foreign influence. 3 内容来自www.paper51.com 2.3 Differences between polysemy andhomonymy. 4 内容来自论文无忧网 www.paper51.com 3. The influence of homonymy on listening. 4 内容来自www.paper51.com 3.1 The significance of listening. 4 内容来自论文无忧网 www.paper51.com 3.2 Various effects of the homonymyon listening. 5 内容来自论文无忧网 www.paper51.com 3.2.1 Homonymy used in sentences. 5 http://www.paper51.com 3.2.2 Homonymy Used in Irony. 5 copyright paper51.com 3.2.3 Homonymy used in humor 6 http://www.paper51.com 3.3 The Reasons of these effects. 7 内容来自论文无忧网 www.paper51.com 3.3.1 Students’ individualfactors. 7 paper51.com 3.3.2 Internal and external factors. 7 内容来自www.paper51.com 4. Methods to avoid these influences. 8 copyright paper51.com 4.1 Using songs with homonymy. 8 内容来自www.paper51.com 4. 2 Using context clues. 9 http://www.paper51.com 4.3 Combining short-term and long-termmemory. 10 内容来自论文无忧网 www.paper51.com
4.4 Improving listening teaching. 11 paper51.com 5. Conclusion. 11 paper51.com Notes………………………………………………………………………………………….13 paper51.com
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As every knows, English plays a significantrole in the world, especially in the modern society. It is widely used now. In China, as aforeign language, English is taught and learned. But since we have few opportunitiesfor authentic speaking and listening, and since the emphasis of learning is puton the English knowledge, not the skills, so most of the students are good atgrammar, but poor in listening and speaking. With thepolicy of “opening Door”, many teachers have now realized the importance oflistening. They pay more attention to the students’ listening skill in theirEnglish teaching, but they meet with some difficulties in improving thestudents’ listening skill. http://www.paper51.com Besides the difficulties in pronunciationand intonation, background knowledge, understanding and memorizing problems,one of the difficulties many teachers and students neglected is the effects ofhomonymy in listening. The paper will emphatically analyze the main elementsthat affect on homonymy in students’ listening comprehension and point out theways and skills to deal with it in order to avoid these effects. First, it isthe definition of homonymy and three causes for the formation of homonymy inEnglish. Then, the factors about the effect of homonymy in listening andstrategies that followed. It is hoped that the paper will help the teachers andstudents avoid these influences and improve their listening skill. copyright paper51.com 2.Homonymy 内容来自www.paper51.com 2.1 The definition of homonymy paper51.com Homonymy refers to the phenomenon that words with different meanings have the sameform, namely, different words are identical in sound or spelling, or in both.Based on the degree of similarity, homonyms fall into three classes: homophones, homographs and perfecthomonyms. 内容来自论文无忧网 www.paper51.com When two words are identical in sound, they are homophones. paper51.com
When two words are identical in spelling, they are homographs. 内容来自论文无忧网 www.paper51.com
When two words are identical in both sound andspelling, they are perfect homonyms (Mei Deming, 2005). Below are examples of each kind. 内容来自论文无忧网 www.paper51.com (1). Homophones: paper51.com son n. ---- a mail child paper51.com sun n. ----a burning star in the sky, which theearth goes round and from which it receives light and heat. 内容来自论文无忧网 www.paper51.com (2). Homographs: copyright paper51.com close adj. ----close. 内容来自论文无忧网 www.paper51.com
close v. ----toshut. 内容来自www.paper51.com (3). Perfect homonyms: paper51.com 1) base adj. /beis/----(of people, actions, etc) low,dishonorable. paper51.com baseadj. /beis/----the bottom ofsomething. http://www.paper51.com
2) Last adj. /la: st/----following all the rest. http://www.paper51.com
Last n /la: st/----a piece of wood or metalshaped like a human foot, used by shoemakers and shoe repairers. 内容来自www.paper51.com Last v /la:st/-----to go on, to continue paper51.com |