Guidance of the Schema Theory in Second Language Reading
Qiu Ge-jia · Journal of Dongguan University of Technology · 2006
Research on the theory of schema has found out that second language reading can be influenced by three types of schemata:content schema,formal schema and linguistic schema.Content schema refers to a reader's cultural background or the level of world knowledge.Formal schema,often known as textual schema,refers to the organizational forms and rhetorical structures of written texts.It can include knowledge of different text types and genres, and also include the understanding of the different ways in which different types of texts in different languages deal with the different text organizations,language structures,vocabulary and grammar.Linguistic or language schema includes the decoding features needed to recognize words and how they fit together in a sentence.By discussing the three elements of the schema theory,this paper demonstrates the guidance of the schema theory in second language reading.