| Reading is the basic skill of foreign language learning. The major purpose of college English teaching is to improve students reading ability. In the modern information era. fast reading is more important. Non-English major students should have English fast reading ability to adapt to the requirements of the new information society and practical language application. Traditional teaching methods, inherent reading notions, bad reading habits, poor language and cultural knowledge and negative psychological factors impede students reading fast. Therefore, it needs new methods to face the new requirement. Reading is a process of thinking, so teachers should enhance students'fast reading comprehension in the process, let the students understand the essence of fast reading, monitor their reading process, effectively achieve purpose of reading through the metacognitive theory. In addition, schema theory is one of the effective ways to guide fast reading comprehension. Because the theory can help students enhance language ability, analyze context and the structure of the text, etc. It plays a positive role of reading comprehension. Therefore, using theoretical method guiding students to read fast, and effective application of learning strategies and teaching strategies into fast reading have very important practical significance for cultivating students'ability of fast reading.The paper takes metacognitive theory and schema theory as the theoretical basis, analyzes the obstacles of English fast reading, and applies some strategies in the fast reading. The fundamental research is under the guidance of scientific theories and the application of practical strategies to eliminate the students'obstacles and to improve students'fast reading ability.The paper selects students from the Institute of Economic Management attached to Northeast DianLi University for subjects, makes full use of the experimental teaching, questionnaire survey, pre-test and post-test, data analysis through SPSS 17.0 to show that by using the corresponding strategies, obstacles influencing students'English fast reading are basically eliminated, students'ability of fast reading is improved. Students are able to satisfy the request of talent cultivation in the modern society. Meanwhile, students also can adapt to the requirement of social development and international communication. |