Abstract
Considering the difficulties in understanding the global meaning of texts, this paper intends to give some suggestions on how to help students reach a deeper understanding of texts in intensive reading classroom within the framework of schema theory. The purpose of this paper is expressed in three ways. The first is to give a brief overview of some of the literature that deals with schema theory as part of a reader centered psycholinguistic processing model for both native and non-native readers. The second goal is to show how familiarity with the subject matter in terms of schema theory affects L2 understanding about the text. The third one is to discuss the implications of schema theory in L2. The conclusion can be made that texts become easier to understand when the teacher enhances the students' prior knowledge. Background knowledge is a bridge connecting existing knowledge in mind with the new text.
Highlights
In traditional English teaching, new words and grammatical rules were regarded as the core of English learning
With the development of the society and the requirement of modern English teaching and learning, the general understanding of texts is becoming more important in the process of English teaching
What has affected their reading ability? Why do most readers have difficulties? How can language teachers help the students to improve their reading ability? The general knowledge of the world is of prime importance for the readers to have better understanding in the reading process
Summary
In traditional English teaching, new words and grammatical rules were regarded as the core of English learning. The students were only supposed to understand the words or sentence meaning rather than the overall meaning of a text. With the development of the society and the requirement of modern English teaching and learning, the general understanding of texts is becoming more important in the process of English teaching. How can language teachers help the students to improve their reading ability? The general knowledge of the world is of prime importance for the readers to have better understanding in the reading process. This paper mainly discusses these two aspects of reading in terms of the framework of schema theory and its application to the teaching of English intensive reading
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