【正文】 down Model However, modern research on reading has found the reading process active rather than passive as well as individualized and plicated. Reading theorists have proposed many different visions of reading act. Topdown Model is also called readerbased model, which was mentioned by Goodman in 1967. In “Reading a psycholinguistic guessing game”, he pointed out that reading was a process that reader utilized a band of cognition and tactics which based on the hint of the material, to forecast, cheek out and amend the reading material, moreover, to rebuild the sense which was conveyed in his mind. His thought based on the information gained from the reading prehension。畢業(yè)論文(設(shè)計(jì))Schema Theory and Senior English Reading Teaching 22. The present situation of teaching English reading 3 The relationship between reading and linguistic petence 3 Problems in teaching of reading and the reason 4 The disadvantages of traditional teaching model 5 Dull and boring. 5 Low prehension level 5 The importance of suitable reading theory 53. Cognition of reading prehension process 6 Bottomup Model 6 Topdown Model 7 Interactive Model 84. Schema Theory 9 Schema and Schema Theory 9 Classifications of Schemata 12 Schema Theory and Reading Comprehension 12 The implication from Schema Theory to the actual reading teaching 13 Prereading activity is needed to some extent. 13 Students should learn and know more about the cultures of the targetlanguage 14 Three kinds of schemas should be balanced in teaching reading. 14 The goals of reading instruction should be more clear 155. Practical use in reading teaching 16 Material selection 17 Schema activation 18 Brainstorming 18 Class discussions 19 Asking questions 20 Using multimedia 20 Previewing 21 Semantic mapping 21 Schema construction 22 Build on students’ existing schemata 22 Increase background knowledge 22 Increase reallife experiences 23 Increase experiences by extensive reading 236. Conclusion 23References 24. 王麗, How to Develop Senior High Students’ EnglishReading. , 20031121. 25 In English study, reading plays an important role. It is the foundation to improve students’ listening, speaking, writing and translation abilities. So in various grades of English tests, especially in entrance examination for college in recent years, reading stands at the top position. In terms of teaching, reading is one of the important links in teaching of a foreign language. It gives learners important and sufficient materials for language input. At the same time, the English Curriculum for Chinese senior high school formulates “training students’ reading ability” clearly. It has begun to lay emphasis on reading prehension. However, nowadays, in the reading class, most teachers are used to employing traditional teaching model which is based on the reading process of “Bottomup” Model. This model stresses more on linguistic analysis than training students’ reading ability. Those teachers teach reading by making students to recognize the basic language symbols, namely from letters to word, phrase, then from phrase to sentence, paragraph, finally from paragraph to passage. In fact, this pedagogy badly limits students’ reading abilities. As a result, students’ reading petence is still weak and their grades at the part of reading test are often lower than other parts.Due to the importantce of reading and the present poor situation of reading teaching mentioned above, teachers should reflect on their traditional teaching methods of English reading in order to improve students’ reading prehension. That is also why this paper reviews articles on the research of theoretical and pedagogical issues in readinghoping to get some inspiration and integrate it effectively into the English reading teaching.The importance of reading has also initiated much research in second language acquisition. And the reading process has been one of the key aspects of reading research. With the influence of psycholinguistics, the research of the reading process has been developed rapidly. The wellknown theories include: the bottomup model, the topdown model, and the interactive model. Developing with the analysis of reading process, reading has famously been described as a psycholinguistic guessing game(樓青, 2005) in which efficient readers minimize dependence on visual detail by utilizing background knowledge to make predictions and check these against the text. This is the viewpoint of Schema Theory. Schema Theory describes the process by which readers bine their own background knowledge with the information in a text to prehend that text. All readers carry different schemata (background information) and these are also often culturespecific. This is an important concept in ESL (English as a second language) teaching, and prereading tasks are often designed to build or activate the learner39。s schemata. This paper summarises some of the research on schema theory and explores its applications to ESL reading, in the hope of providing some hints to the improvement of teaching and learning.2. The present situation of teaching English reading The relationship between reading and linguistic petence In Clarke’s opinion, reading can be divided into scanning, skimming, prehensive reading and evaluated reading. Linguistic petence refers to understanding and mastering of vocabulary, structure and the text. We may gain information and improve linguistic petence as well by effective reading. On the contrary, improved linguistic petence will be the reason for improving reading efficiency. These two are interacted and interpromoted. Therefore, in teaching of English reading, we cannot lay particular stress on only one of them. Problems in teaching of reading and the reason However, at present there is a general tendency in teaching of English reading, which is laying more stress on grammar and synta