The Application of Schema Theory to EFL Reading Teaching

DOI

10.2991/etmhs-16.2016.25How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Schema theory; Teaching process; College English reading; Reading comprehension; Examination

Abstract

This study was conducted under the guidance of the schema theory and based on the textbook (New Horizon College English (Second Edition) Book 1). The author investigated the effectiveness of using schema theory in the teaching of college English reading with a combination of descriptive qualitative and quantitative methods: a questionnaire, an experimental teaching practice and an interview after the experiment. The experiment lasted for sixteen weeks and it was conducted upon 80 freshmen in two groups with different levels of English proficiency, and each group consisted of two level-based classes. For formal schema, to analyze the different writing styles and features of different reading material, so as to help students to become familiar with the structure, the organization and the main idea of the text and to accumulate rich formal schemata.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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