图式理论是我国近年来采用较多的认知理论,在大学英语视听说教学中发挥着重要的指导作用。大学英语视听说课程使用多种感官同时参与语言学习过程,具有生动性、直观性、动感性等特点。在新视野大学英语视听说教学中,教师应利用图式理论来帮助学生建立图式、积累图式和调用图式,有效发挥大学英语视听说课的优势,进而提高学生的英语听说能力。 Schema theory is a cognitive theory that has been adopted in recent years in China and plays an important guiding role in college English audio-visual teaching. The College English Listening, Speaking, and Listening and Speaking course uses a variety of sense organs to participate in the language learning process. It is vivid, intuitive, and dynamic. In New Horizon College English listening and speaking teaching, teachers should use schema theory to help students build schemas, accumulate schemas, and call schemas, effectively play the advantages of college English audio-visual classes, and then improve students’ English listening and speaking ability.