There are two major features of an abstract: its discourse structure and the language used for condensing the information,which will help one to write a good abstract.

Taking the concept of "register" as the starting point,this paper elaborates the characteristics of lonely heart advertisement under its own register,mainly in its discourse structure and linguistic characteristics.

This paper tries to give a brief description of John Sinclair s concept of discourse structure.

The translated text should be in accordance with the norms of the target textual structure and the reading habit of the target audience.

) in texts on textual structure and expressions.

Differences of thinking modes bring about various features of textual structure in English and Chinese.

adjustment and simplification of pragmatic text structure is required in Chinese-English translation.

However, it is also applicable to text structure.

Among them are Prominences, Disobedience of Cooperative Principle at different levels of language, and Problem and Solution Pattern and Advertising Appeal in Text Structure.

As a partial solution to the problem,this article works from the metacognitive theory and textual theory on applying to the classroom teaching of listening through discussion,which can help students overcome listening obstacles and improve their listening ability.

Appliance of textual theory to the teaching of reading can help students quickly grasp the basic structure of the text,get the key points of sentences and paragraphs and regulate the reading speeding, thus directing their reading visual perspective from sentence level to textual level so as to acquire desirablea reading speed.