The Design Of The Elementary Chinese Reading Course Under The Schema Theory And Experiment

Schema is a nucleus conception of cognitive development psychology. It has beenapplied to illustrate many aspects of psychological process because of its havingpowerful generality and interpretation. Recently, many psychologists andpsycholinguists apply schema theory to the foreign language teaching(FLT). They try toillustrate those foreign language learners’ psychological process.The thesis tries to describe how to use the schema theory in junior grade foreignstudents, and how to apply it to design and study an Chinese Reading lesson plan.The empirical research is made in this study which applies schema theory to designan Chinese Reading teaching lesson and then presents a sample lesson plan to showhow it makes influence on the experiment class. The author made two questionnairesurveys for the experiment class, collected the data from results of pre-test, threeschool-wide exams, post-test,and then makes a careful analysis of the results. The studyproves and supports the two hypothesis raised by the author. The author also finds outthat after a series training in the framework of schema theory, students increase theirself-confidence and interests and improve their leaning strategies, learning attitude,motives and etc.