Study on the Discourse Analysis in the Application of English Reading Teaching

Abstract

English reading is quite an important language skill for learners and has been widely recognized. So, there is no doubt that reading is an important content of English Teaching. How to do it better and improve the savvy of students are the topics English teachers are discussing all the time. Nowadays, with the deepening research of the foreign language teaching theory, discourse analysis has become an important teaching method in English reading teaching. This method considers English discourse as the center, and plays an important role in students’ reading ability and cultivation. This paper aims at proposing and solving the issues existing in English reading teaching. It combines schema theory, genre analysis and six-step teaching approach. And it puts forward the application of discourse analysis theory in English reading to improve students’ reading ability and the effects of English reading teaching.