1 Introduction
1.1 Research background and significance
Reading is a process of thinking as well as a process of cognition. However, during the teaching course, we frustratingly discover that there are still some students who are bewildered with English reading without effective improvement in reading efficiency. As indicated by observation and researches, improving reading ability is subject to various impacting factors, including language and culture factor, non-language and culture factor, intelligent factor and non-intelligent factor and so on. As a middle school English teacher, the author finds out that some teachers still resort to the traditional teaching method of intensive reading, namely the grammar teaching mode which includes linguistic phenomenon explanation, difficult points explanation, phrases usages elaboration, grammar rules analysis, practices on making sentences, sentences translation and so on. Under such teaching mode, students’ knowledge scope is narrow, analytical ability is poor and they often fail to grasp the passage from an overall perspective. However, the new English curriculum standard has raised higher requirement for students’ English practical application ability, which will inevitably request teachers to enhance their teaching method and adopt new teaching concept as guidance. Complying with above requirement from the new English curriculum standard, Schema reading theory gradually comes into the public view in recent years as a joint achievement worked out by cognitive psychologists, linguists and artificial intelligence experts.
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1.2 Purpose of the Research
This research is intended to explore English reading teaching in rural middle schoolsfrom the angle of Schema Theory. The author conducted the experiment and proposed the hypothesis that the use of Schema Theory in middle school English reading teaching is able to assist students significantly to improve their English reading abilities. By adopting the schema-based teaching method，英语论文，teachers would make their classroom atmosphere more active, and they would also demonstrate how teachers are able to help students read effectively through the application of Schema Theory in reading teaching. Through the data-based empirical research on two groups of students in rural middle schools，英语论文范文 |
