The Use of Schema Theory in the Teaching of English Reading

Schema theory has an important application value in English reading teaching. It is essential for optimizing the teaching environment of English reading teaching, improving the effectiveness of English reading teaching, developing students’ English reading ability, and cultivating students’ good English reading thinking. Moreover, it plays an important role in promoting the all-round development of students. Aiming at the problems in junior high school English reading teaching, this paper proposes a development strategy for English reading teaching based on three different schema theories: language theory, content theory and form theory, so as to further improve the quality and efficiency of junior high school English reading teaching.