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The Application of Schema Theory to English Reading Teaching in Junior High School
LI Jian-ping, ZANG Li-sha
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DOI:10.17265/1539-8072/2016.01.003
Linyi University, Linyi, China
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.
schema theory, English reading teaching, junior high school
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