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Cognitive Schema Theory and English Teaching [Abstract] With the recent development of cognitive linguistics, schema theory has been gradually developed into an important theory, which is the study of psychology and linguistics, a product of integration. This theory has increasingly been concerned about the foreign language educators, and successfully applied to teaching. In this paper, a brief description schema theory, the analysis of schema theory in developing foreign language learners in reading, listening comprehension, vocabulary, memory and language skills on the prominent role and significance. [Keywords:] Application of Schema Theory in Foreign Language Teaching Schema (Schema) is a knowledge of the storage units in the brain, the concept was first proposed by the famous philosopher Immanuel Kant (Kant) in 1781 in his book ‘Critique of pure reason’ made. In his view, a person to accept new ideas, new information, new concepts of time, only the person with the mind of their intrinsic knowledge of the concept of linking to generate meaning. Since then, different scholars have different pairs of schemata is also understood and interpreted. The modern schema theories in the 20th century and the mid-70s, the U.S. artificial intelligence expert Rumelhart (DERumelhart) analyzes the cognitive framework or pre-existing knowledge in the understanding of the role of the process. The theory that, whether oral or written language articles are not meaningful in itself, meaning exists in people’s minds, it depends on the people in understanding the process of the brain in the cognitive framework that already exists, that is, map-style boot. In the process of language understanding, cognitive framework for understanding the information, provide the basis for forecasting, giving meaning to language materials. Cognitive psychologists, learning is from books and teachers to impart knowledge into the learner’s own existing knowledge systems and convert it into useful sk