Schema theory and discourse understanding: A case study of Freshman English majors reading literary texts
學年 91
學期 1
發表日期 2002-10-04
作品名稱 Schema theory and discourse understanding: A case study of Freshman English majors reading literary texts
作品名稱（其他語言）
著者 Chen, Hsiu-chieh
作品所屬單位 淡江大學英文學系
出版者 臺北縣淡水鎮：淡江大學外國語文學院
會議名稱 第六屆兩岸外語教學研討會
會議地點 臺灣, 臺北
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.
關鍵字 Scheme Reading Theory;Reading Comprehension;mental representation;Literary Discourse;Discourse Understanding;text schemata;world schemata;Language schemata;coherence
語言 en
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會議性質 兩岸
校內研討會地點 淡水校園
研討會時間 20021004~20021005
通訊作者 Chen, Hsiu-chieh
國別 TWN
公開徵稿 Y
出版型式 紙本
出處 第六屆兩岸外語教學研討會論文集(上冊)，頁415-430
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