Proceedings of the 2016 2nd International Conference on Education Technology, Management and Humanities Science

The Application of Schema Theory to EFL Reading Teaching

Authors
Yan Zhang
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Yan Zhang
Available Online January 2016.
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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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2016 2nd International Conference on Education Technology, Management and Humanities Science
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
January 2016
ISBN
978-94-6252-160-5
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/etmhs-16.2016.25How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
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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