The Application Of The Schemata Theory To The English Reading Teaching In Senior High Schools

The innovation of reading comprehension teaching is the key to the English language teaching reformation. Therefore more and more importance is attached to the training of reading comprehension, which is regarded as one of the four basic language skills in English learning. But, under the influence of the traditional pedagogy, quite a few senior high school teachers often lay focus on the learning of the knowledge of vocabulary and grammar, as a result, their students ignore the learning, accumulating and applying of the schemata knowledge, which is closely related to the reading materials. I, with the achievements in reading studies, from the angle of schemata theory, mainly explore that the innovation of reading comprehension teaching is quite necessary.To start with, the thesis mainly discusses the reading comprehension, from the definition of reading and reading comprehension to three different reading models, which shows that the most efficient reading model is interactive reading model, in which schemata knowledge is not only necessary but also important; After the documentation, the thesis lays its foundation on schemata theory, which involves the different definitions of "schema" , the classification of schemata knowledge and its function in reading comprehension, from which the conclusion is drawn that during the reading , students can use different types of schemata knowledge according to the their language proficiency and different reading materials; In the following part, the thesis briefly states the relationship between the reading comprehension teaching and the schemata theory, from which I gain inspiration and find out the applications of schemata theory in English reading comprehension teaching in senior high schools; and at the same time, I offer areading teaching model of a text, which shows how to use schemata theory in reading comprehension teaching; In the last part of the thesis, an experiment is done between two classes using two different teaching methods, one is traditional, the other is new, that is, the teaching method that uses schemata theory, which is proved to be far better.