Schema theory and discourse understanding: A case study of Freshman English majors reading literary texts

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題名:	Schema theory and discourse understanding: A case study of Freshman English majors reading literary texts
作者:	Chen, Hsiu-chieh
貢獻者:	淡江大學英文學系
關鍵詞:	Scheme Reading Theory;Reading Comprehension;mental representation;Literary Discourse;Discourse Understanding;text schemata;world schemata;Language schemata;coherence
日期:	2003
上傳時間:	2012-12-03 23:12:25 (UTC+8)
出版者:	臺北縣：淡江大學外國語文學院
摘要:	This study, based on the schema reading theory, investigates students' reading comprehension from an interaction of textual form with the students' pre-existing habit of mental representation. In spite of the beginning English majors' difficulty in confronting texts with all its complexity and foreignness, we reading teachers have to include a substantial amount of literary reading materials. Students indicate that they do not comprehend much in their prereading. Even after class discussion, they still cannot understand well or appreciate much of a piece of work. They do not understand the style and structure of the text. Designed to investigate students' difficulties in understanding literary discourse, this study takes up a typical example, analyzes the students' difficulties with reference to the schema theory applied to reading, and discusses their pedagogical implications. Without the teacher's help, students read "The Open Window," a short story by Saki(H. H. Munro). After reading, they were asked to answer a six-item test and an open-ended question. The contents of the answers were analyzed and pedagogical implications were discussed. The results reveal that, beyond the elementary aspects of language schemata-vocabulary and syntactic structure, and text schemata-literary forms and conventions, students generally need assistance in getting reading experiences to enrich their world schemata.
關聯:	第六屆兩岸外語教學研討會論文集(上冊)，頁415-430
顯示於類別:	[英文學系暨研究所] 會議論文

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