Teaching Reading:the Schema Theory

• 作 者: 李健青
• 机 构: 南方医科大学外国语与国际交流学院,
• 出 处: 新课程(教育学术版)
• 发表日期: 2007年10期
• 关键词: Reading comprehension schema briefly classroom belief vocabulary attempt profici

Schema Theory describes the process by which readers combine their own background knowledge with the information in a text to comprehend that text. It is based on the belief that ’every act of comprehension involves one’s knowledge of the world as well’ (Carrell & Eisterhold 1983, p.73) This article is to evaluate the schema theory and discuss briefly its applicability in the light of my local teaching context.

Schema Theory describes the process by which readers combine their own background knowledge with the information in a text to comprehend that text. It is based on the belief that ’every act of comprehension involvement one’s knowledge of the world as well’ (Carrell & Eisterhold 1983 , p.73) This article is to evaluate the schema theory and discuss briefly its applicability in the light of my local teaching context.