Abstract: In business English teaching, listening and speaking ability is an extremely important ability, but many colleges and universities still adopt the traditional listening and speaking teaching method, students' listening and speaking ability is relatively weak. At present, schema theory is widely used in the fields of reading, vocabulary, translation, writing and listening in foreign language teaching. It is less used in the teaching of listening and speaking, but it has gradually become prominent. This paper analyzes the reasons why students 'listening and speaking ability is low, expounds the guidance of schema theory to English listening and speaking, and takes a specific class as an example to make a specific teaching design. After one semester of teaching, it is proved that schema theory can also effectively improve students' listening and speaking ability and stimulate students' interest in learning English through classroom observation and questionnaire, interview and test at the end of the semester.

Key words: Schema theory, English teaching, Business English, Listening, Oral English, The teaching design