英语专业 研究生论文 心理语言学 （全英文）.doc

The Analysis of Reading Model Based on Psycholingistics Abstract This essay aims at discussing the reader’s reading models. Two important theories about reading models from aspect of psycholinguistics are reviewed. Goodman’s model and Schema Theory. And the important role of these two theories in reading teaching and learning. Key words: reading model; top-down, and bottom-up; Goodman’s model ; schema theory ; Schemata 1. Introduction Reading is one of the important elements in skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing, no matter whether you are a English major or not, reading is very difficult for some students to do. Where is the problem? For the sake, it is that we are not know the nature of reading throughly. We often have a feeling that we dont know the main idea after reading whole passage and no one knows how reading works. This essay will solve the problem.How is knowledge represented and organized in the mind? What role does it play in discourse comprehension and interpretation? What are the exact mechanisms whereby knowledge-based processes are utilised in comprehension? These are questions that have puzzled psycholinguists and cognitive psychologists for years. Despite major developments in the field of second language (L2) reading over the last two decades, many attempts at explaining the role of knowledge in L2 comprehension have been made almost exclusively in the context of schema theory, a perspective that provides an expectation-driven conception of the role of knowledge and considers that preexisting knowledge provides the main guiding context through which information is processed and interpreted. In this article, I first review and critically analyze the major assumptions underlying schema theory and the processes that it postulates underlie knowledge representation and comprehension. Then I consider an alternative perspective, a construction-integration model of discourse comprehension, and discuss how this perspective, when applie