On the Application of Schema Theory and the reform of English teaching of reading.docVIP

On the Application of Schema Theory and the reform of English teaching of reading Paper Keywords: schema theory teaching of reading English Learning Abstract: Reading in English learning process, one of the most important part, read a variety of teaching methods. The schema theory of reform through the application of English reading instruction can be more effective in improving student’s reading comprehension. The traditional teaching of reading to focus only on the improvement of language knowledge and understanding of the meaning of the sentence, the majority of teachers in the classroom teaching steps to follow: First, the students in advance prep texts (search words); and then explain the text sentence by sentence teachers to analyze grammar structure, and explain the language focus, and difficult; and finally, teachers and students together to do the exercises. This traditional model ignores the right understanding of the article as a whole to enable students to develop a ‘see the wood without seeing the forest’ slow reading habits. This ‘Man Tangguan’ mode of teaching did not train students to analyze problems, understand the problem of capacity, and therefore can not achieve the real purpose of reading instruction. In the reading process, not a passive reader to obtain information from the material, but the use of already available knowledge in mind, according to the text in the sign reading material to find clues to predict and reasoning, so as to achieve the understanding of the material. The use of a certain schema theory, you can inspire students to predict the content will make students to actively think, to express their views, thereby grasping the full text to resolve individual linguistic phenomena, but also can improve the language proficiency of students. A connotation of Schema Theory Schema Theory that the basis of cognitive schemata are stored in the human brain memory, used to express the general concept of information architecture.