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Research on Medical Students’ Use of English Reading Strategies under Schema Theory

Author: ZhangSuXian
Tutor: ShiZuoZuo
School: North China Electric Power University (Hebei)
Course: English Language and Literature
Keywords: reading schema theory reading strategies topic familiarity
CLC: H319
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2008
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Abstract


This thesis adopts mainly quantitative method to investigate the effect of the topic familiarity on reading comprehension and reading strategies guided by Schema Theory. The subjects are 100 students from the Medical Department in Hebei University. First, the thesis discusses the definition of reading, definition, classification and application of schema theory, definition and classification of reading strategies and relevant researches, and theoretical framework is formulated. Second, a questionnaire is designed based on the theoretical framework and the research is made by reading tests and conducting the questionnaire twice, the experimental research data is collected. Third, after analyzing the data, the results of the study indicate that familiar background knowledge has a very significant effect on the reading comprehension, and has the significant impact on the use of some strategies in the meta-cognitive and cognitive category, but has no strong impact on the choose of the social-affective strategies. Finally, some pedagogical suggestions are put forward for the instruction of English teaching.

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