Abstract

Reading, one of the four basic language skills, plays a very important role in English reading teaching. For a long time, teachers have put too much emphasis on the learning of new words and phrases, the analysis of sentence structure and other linguistic knowledge but ignore background knowledge learning in junior high school English reading teaching. This teaching method is often unable to improve students’ English reading ability naturally. Schema theory has attracted the educators’ attention since it emerges because it can quickly improve the students’ English reading ability. This paper mainly discusses how to apply schema theory to English reading teaching to improve the students’ reading ability. 

Key words: schema theory; English Reading Teaching; activate; comprehend; consolidate

Contents

Abstract

摘要

1 Introduction-1

2 Literature Review-2

2.1 Definition and Classification of Reading-2

2.2 Definition and Classification of Schema Theory-3

2.3 Researches on reading and schema theory home and abroad-4

3 Application of Schema Theory to English Reading Teaching-5

3.1 Activating Schema in Pre-reading-5

3.2 Comprehending Schema in While-reading-7

3.3 Consolidating Schema in Post-reading-10

4 Conclusion-13

References-15