Reading is an effective means to cultivate junior high school students＇ comprehensive ability of using English and plays an important role in English study. Schema theory is a scientific reading theory advocated by m...Reading is an effective means to cultivate junior high school students＇ comprehensive ability of using English and plays an important role in English study. Schema theory is a scientific reading theory advocated by modern teaching, and it regards the reading comprehension as a process that readers＇ knowledge and skills interact with the information in the reading material. In this paper, a questionnaire is conducted to reveal the fact that students lack schemata in reading and then a proposal that language schema, content schema, and form schema be integrated to activate students＇ existing schemata in the process of reading is put forward展开更多
Schema is interpreted as one's prior knowledge or background knowledge and schema theory is about a reader's utilizing his schema knowledge when reading so as to achieve efficient comprehension.Based on the an...Schema is interpreted as one's prior knowledge or background knowledge and schema theory is about a reader's utilizing his schema knowledge when reading so as to achieve efficient comprehension.Based on the analysis of the current situation of English reading instruction in the independent colleges and the literature review of schema theory,this paper mainly explores how schema theory is applied in the teaching steps of English reading in independent colleges,such as warming up,brainstorming,prediction,presentation of background knowledge,instruction of new words,skimming and scanning,reading the text and critical reading.In the end,the pedagogical implications are proposed.展开更多
On account of the difficulties appeared in the higher vocational students'English reading comprehension,the author connected these difficulties with four schemas included in the schema theory,and according to cont...On account of the difficulties appeared in the higher vocational students'English reading comprehension,the author connected these difficulties with four schemas included in the schema theory,and according to content schema,made an experimental study on reading test.Through data contrast and analysis of two groups'reading test results,the author concluded the content schema had certain significance for the higher vocational English reading teaching practice.展开更多
The development of reading ability has always been one of the primary objectives in English language teaching,so theschema theory in English reading teaching has been drawn an increasingly attention.
Effective English reading requires readers not only possess good English grammar, flexible reading skills and plentiful vocabulary but also master rich cultural background knowledge.However, for the adult students edu...Effective English reading requires readers not only possess good English grammar, flexible reading skills and plentiful vocabulary but also master rich cultural background knowledge.However, for the adult students educated in the Continuing Education College, it is rather obvious that they have troubles learning English The author of this thesis pro-posed a new idea of English reading teaching-teaching with allusions and their stories in English reading class.The author tries to apply the relationship between schema theory and reading in the process of teaching adult students so that they can get a deeper understanding of English allusions and their stories.The author of this thesis did an empirical research and made a quantitative analysis for pretest and posttest.The result of this research indicates that to improve English reading proficiency, either teachers or students should attach equal importance both to language structures and to cultural background knowledge.展开更多
Schema theory is the first one to explain the process of reading comprehension theory,thus it has a great influence onthe reading teaching.This paper,with a brief introduction of schema theory,and based on the schema ...Schema theory is the first one to explain the process of reading comprehension theory,thus it has a great influence onthe reading teaching.This paper,with a brief introduction of schema theory,and based on the schema mechanism analysis,puts for-ward its application in the China English reading teaching strategies.展开更多
As in reading teaching,schema theory has long been taking a dominant part.According to this theory,English teacherscan help the students to call up their prior knowledge by placing an emphasis on a more efficient use ...As in reading teaching,schema theory has long been taking a dominant part.According to this theory,English teacherscan help the students to call up their prior knowledge by placing an emphasis on a more efficient use of pre-reading activities.Oneof the effective activities is to make good use of the pre-reading exercises in the textbook.This paper intends to analyze the resultsof two brief investigations.One was about the pre-reading exercises in the SEFC(New Edition 2010)Book 1.The other was car-ried out among the first year students from Nanhai Experimental High School of South China Normal University.English teachersin high school thus can train the students to make links between the text and what they already know according to their interests.展开更多
文摘Reading is an effective means to cultivate junior high school students＇ comprehensive ability of using English and plays an important role in English study. Schema theory is a scientific reading theory advocated by modern teaching, and it regards the reading comprehension as a process that readers＇ knowledge and skills interact with the information in the reading material. In this paper, a questionnaire is conducted to reveal the fact that students lack schemata in reading and then a proposal that language schema, content schema, and form schema be integrated to activate students＇ existing schemata in the process of reading is put forward
文摘Schema is interpreted as one's prior knowledge or background knowledge and schema theory is about a reader's utilizing his schema knowledge when reading so as to achieve efficient comprehension.Based on the analysis of the current situation of English reading instruction in the independent colleges and the literature review of schema theory,this paper mainly explores how schema theory is applied in the teaching steps of English reading in independent colleges,such as warming up,brainstorming,prediction,presentation of background knowledge,instruction of new words,skimming and scanning,reading the text and critical reading.In the end,the pedagogical implications are proposed.
文摘On account of the difficulties appeared in the higher vocational students'English reading comprehension,the author connected these difficulties with four schemas included in the schema theory,and according to content schema,made an experimental study on reading test.Through data contrast and analysis of two groups'reading test results,the author concluded the content schema had certain significance for the higher vocational English reading teaching practice.
文摘The development of reading ability has always been one of the primary objectives in English language teaching,so theschema theory in English reading teaching has been drawn an increasingly attention.
文摘Effective English reading requires readers not only possess good English grammar, flexible reading skills and plentiful vocabulary but also master rich cultural background knowledge.However, for the adult students educated in the Continuing Education College, it is rather obvious that they have troubles learning English The author of this thesis pro-posed a new idea of English reading teaching-teaching with allusions and their stories in English reading class.The author tries to apply the relationship between schema theory and reading in the process of teaching adult students so that they can get a deeper understanding of English allusions and their stories.The author of this thesis did an empirical research and made a quantitative analysis for pretest and posttest.The result of this research indicates that to improve English reading proficiency, either teachers or students should attach equal importance both to language structures and to cultural background knowledge.
文摘Schema theory is the first one to explain the process of reading comprehension theory,thus it has a great influence onthe reading teaching.This paper,with a brief introduction of schema theory,and based on the schema mechanism analysis,puts for-ward its application in the China English reading teaching strategies.
文摘As in reading teaching,schema theory has long been taking a dominant part.According to this theory,English teacherscan help the students to call up their prior knowledge by placing an emphasis on a more efficient use of pre-reading activities.Oneof the effective activities is to make good use of the pre-reading exercises in the textbook.This paper intends to analyze the resultsof two brief investigations.One was about the pre-reading exercises in the SEFC(New Edition 2010)Book 1.The other was car-ried out among the first year students from Nanhai Experimental High School of South China Normal University.English teachersin high school thus can train the students to make links between the text and what they already know according to their interests.
