Elaborately selected English movies can be scientifically used in postgraduate English listening teaching to help students construct and activate a variety of listening-comprehension-related schemas, particularly cultural schema, one of the most crucial sub-schemas in content schema, which is beneficial to the enhancements of their listening comprehension ability and inter- cultural communication competence. It is proven to be the most effective way to foster and strengthen students＇ cross-cultural com- munication competence that teachers make...
