摘 要：阅读教学一直是高中英语教学的重点和难点。传统的英语教学法认为阅读理解是一个自上而下的被动解码过程，只有逐字逐句理解文字，才可以理解篇章。图式理论认为阅读理解包含所有层次的图式的协调过程，阅读理解并非简单的解码过程，而是信息的输入和阅读者之间的一个相互作用过程。因此，本文以图式理论为基础，着重阐述图式理论在高中英语阅读教学中的应用,通过提供足够的图式，使学生熟悉不同文体英语文章的结构特点，促进学生对英语文本内容的了解和吸收。从而增强学生的阅读兴趣，提高和改进学生的英语阅读水平。

关键词：英语阅读；阅读教学；图式理论

Abstract：Reading teaching is always the emphasis and difficulty of English teaching in senior high school. Researchers of traditional teaching methods think that reading is a passive process to decode from upside to downside, and people have to understand it word by word so that they can get the whole text. According to schema theory, schematic coordination procedure in every layer is included in the reading. It is not only to decode but also a interaction between information input and readers. Therefore, schema theory is adopted as the base to expound how it can be applied in English reading teaching. Further more, students will be familiar with all kinds of English literary forms with different diagrams, and they will be easier to get the structure and details of the text as well, so it will increase their interests and improve their reading ability.

Key words: English reading; reading teaching; schema theory

Contents

摘 要 i

Abstract ii

I. Introduction 1

II. The Schema Theory 2

2.1 The Definition of Schema 2

2.2 The Classification of Schema 2

2.3 The Features of Schema Theory 3

III. The Current Situation and Problems of English Reading Teaching in Senior High School 4

3.1 The Current Situation of English Reading Teaching 4

3.2 Problems Existing in English Reading Teaching 4

3.3 Schema Theory and the English Reading Teaching 5

IV. The Application of Schema Theory in English Reading Teaching in Senior High School 6

4.1Teacher’s Tasks in Reading Teaching Process 6

4.2 Adopting Reading Strategies to Fit Different Reading Purposes 7

4.3 Conducting Reading Activities in Class 9

4.3.1 Choosing Proper Pre-reading Activities 9

4.3.2 Adopting Various While-reading Activities 10

4.3.3 Post-reading Activities Combined with Speaking and Writing 11

V. Conclusion 11

Bibliography 13

Acknowledgemens 14

The Application of Schema Theory in English Reading Teaching in Senior High School  

I. Introduction

Most learners, teachers as well as researchers have come to the agreement that English reading is essential to foreign language learning and teaching, without which, none of the five skills (1istening, speaking, reading, writing and translating) can be learned well. The English reading plays very important roles in English teaching and learning. On the one hand, students need to know the skills of reading. On the other hand, the problems may exist in our reading teaching. How to organize reading teaching in class and help students to develop their reading skill and ability are the problems we cannot neglect.

   The schema theory is based on the notion that people’s past experience lead to recall the mental frameworks which help students make sense of new knowledge. In the world, every person has a unique past experience,and it needs to restore and coordinate when he or she reads text. The stored knowledge along with people is called schema. Through schema theory can improve student’s reading ability and stimulate them to recall the prior knowledge, it also makes English reading become more efficient. Thus, this study aims at conducting a research on the senior high school students’ reading beliefs and reading strategies, what’s more investigating the current situations of reading teaching. Based on the analysis of the existing problems and the schema theory, the application of schema theory in English reading teaching will be talked. It is hoped that the study can help highlight the importance of using reading teaching strategies and eventually put forward some pedagogic suggestions on English reading teaching in senior high school.