图式理论对英语阅读教学的启示

Enlightenment of Schema Theory to English Reading Teaching

阅读是语言输入的重要途径,也是一种语言与思维的综合活动。对于读者来讲,具有多少特定的语言和文化背景知识(原有图式)与对文本的正确理解有很大的关系,而阅读教学的重要任务是帮助学生提高对读物的解码能力以及提高读者和作者的情感交流能力。该文主要探讨图式理论对阅读教学的影响,运用图式理论帮助学生激活原有图式,丰富原有的各种图式并创建和巩固新的图式,同时探讨培养学生调用图式的技能,从而进一步提高学生阅读理解的综合能力。

Reading is an important way of language input as well as a comprehensive activity of language and thinking.For a reader,how much the background knowledge of language and culture(original schema)he has is closely related to the correct understanding of the text.In reading teaching it is an important task to help students improve their decoding ability to the articles and to improve the ability of affective interaction between readers and authors.This paper mainly discusses the influence of schema theory on reading teaching,and it deals with how to use schema theory to help students activate the original schemas,enrich them,create and consolidate new schemas,at the same time it also discusses the cultivation of students’skills in calling on their schemas,so as to further improve the comprehensive ability of students’reading comprehension.