篇章语言学(Text Linguistics)研究比句子更大的语言单位,是一种超句法分析。篇章语言学是一门实用性很强的学科。这门学科对英语听力课教学有极大的指导意义。本文将着重探讨对提高听力课预测,捕捉信息能力有关的段篇章或话语中的衔接(cohesion),连贯(coherence)和话语信息(informativity)等几个问题。 Text Linguistics Studying a language unit larger than a sentence is a super-syntactic analysis. Text linguistics is a highly practical subject. This discipline is of great guiding significance to English listening teaching. This article will focus on several topics such as cohesion, coherence, and informativity in a chapter or discourse that improves listening ability prediction and information capture.