The Application Of Schema Theory In The Teaching Of Reading Comprehension In Senior High Schools

Without enough instruction of reading theories, reading teachers in senior high schools always find reading a difficult task, making the students in the trouble of improving reading comprehension. In order to make reading practice effective and efficient, I observed the lessons of all the English teachers in my school and had a close study on their teaching methods. Having analyzed and compared the different reading instructions, I bring on seven problems out of them, which have their own limitations and need to be improved by applying the schema reading theory. The reading process of the schema theory can be viewed as a combination of top-down procedures and bottom-up procedures, that is, interactive procedures. Based on this theory, three teaching plans are discussed, designed and then applied to different reading models, to illustrate how each one works in providing students with effective strategies. Finally, ways to improve reading comprehension are given for developing better comprehension. Practice has proved that the application of the schema theory can make the teachers of reading comprehension more conscious of the reading process and thus give students more effective instructions to develop their independent reading ability.