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The Thematic Progression Theory and Its Implication for Reading Teaching Peng Narnia 1 OVERVIEW ? Information Theory ? The Theme and Rheme ? The Thematic Progression Parttens ? Implication for Reading Teaching 2 Information theory dealing with measurement and transmission of information through a channel was put forward by Claude E. Shannon in 1948, which was initially only limited to the field of communications, processing and transmitting information. Information Theory 3 Information Theory in Linguistics ? Information theory in linguistics was put forward by the Pragues after the second world war. ? They referred it as the Communicative Dynamism,which belonged to the research of the Functional Sentence Perspective. 4 ? The theme: the starting point of a clause as message; the given information; carrying the least communicative dynamism. ? The rheme: about the theme; the locus of new information;carrying high communicative dynamism. The Theme and Rheme 5 Thematic Progression ? Thematic Progression (TP) is a method of development of a text created through the authors choice of theme. ? Thematic Progression regards how utterances link up to one another and make the text progress. 6 Patterns of Thematic Progression ? Simple linear (chained): T1 - R1. R1=T2. T2 - R2. R2=T3. One evening in spring, a man and a woman moved into a new house. Just outside their door there was a garden. It was a pretty garden, with flowers and grass and even a tree. 7 Three Basic Patterns: ? Simple linear TP ? Continuous/constant themeTP ? Hypertheme with derived themes 8 ? Simple linear (chained): T1 - R1. R1=T2. T2 - R2. R2=T3. ? The complete range of electromagnetic radiations is made up of gamma rays, X-rays, ultra-violet rays, ordinary visible light, infra-red(heat) radiation, and radio waves. All these are given out by the Sun, but some of them do not reach us, as the atmo-sphere behaves like a filter. It lets through visible light and certain rad