Abstract English teaching is playing a more and more important role in the field of modern education, especially at college. For many college students, listening is the most difficult course to learn well while listening does play a critical role in English teaching. Thus, it is crucial to master the skills for English listening. As we know, most of listening materials are presented in the form of conversation. Thus, as it were, conversation is the best carrier of English listening contents. So in this paper, the author tries to analyze how to teach English listening from the perspective of conversational implicature. In many situations，people tend to make use of conversational implicature in conversations for different purposes．Therefore, to apply such a theory to the analysis of college English listening materials is very useful in elevating students’ ability of analyzing conversations, which is beneficial to improving their listening comprehension.53809

Keywords: college English listening teaching；conversation; conversational implicature

摘要在现代教育领域, 尤其在大学里，英语教学占据着越来越重要的地位。对于很多大学生而言，听力是最难学好的课程，而听力又是英语教学中尤为重要的一块。因此，掌握英语听力技巧非常关键。我们都知道，大部分听力材料是以会话形式呈现的。因此，不妨可以说，会话是英语听力内容的最佳载体。因此在本文中,笔者试图从会话含义的角度分析如何进行英语听力教学。很多情况下，为了不同的目的，人们在会话中通常会运用会话含义理论。因此，把会话含义这一理论应用于分析大学英语听力材料，对于帮助学生提升分析对话的能力很有用，进而提高学生的听力理解能力。

毕业论文关键词：大学英语听力教学；会话；会话含义

Contents

1. Introduction 5

2. Literature Review 5

3. Theories related to conversational implicature 3

3.1 Grice’s theory of implicature 3

3.2 Cooperative Principle and maxims of conversation 3

3.3 Violation of the Maxims 4

4. The Application of Conversational Implicature in College English Listening Teaching. 5

4.1 The Traditional Way of Listening Teaching in College English 6

4.2 An Analysis of the Listening Materials in College English 7

4.3 Applying Conversational Implicature to College English Listening Teaching 7

4.4 Some other suggestions for listening 11

5. Conclusion 12

Works Cited 13

1. Introduction

With the development of global economy, English is playing a more and more important role in International communication. Thus, it is very important to learn English well. However, for so many years, English teaching in China has mainly focused on only pronunciation，vocabulary, sentence patterns and grammatical rules. Although both teachers and students have devoted their efforts to teaching and learning English, they usually could not reach the goal they had aimed at. The main reason for this lies in the fact that teachers mostly help their students learn knowledge about English, not how to use English effectively. We know that the purpose of our learning English is to communicate competently. To master a language，it is not enough to learn its pronunciation，vocabulary and grammar only．We should learn something more，such as various relations between language and language users．We should be aware of not only the literal meanings of all expressions，but also their implied meanings. Mastering this learning strategy will be of great benefit for the students to improve their listening comprehension.