A Corpus-based Teaching Design of Junior High School English Reading from the Perspective of Schema Theory
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This paper takes the reading text The Night The Earth Didn＇t Sleep in Unit 4 of English for senior high School published by People's Education Press as an example to probe into the concrete process of designing English reading teaching activities assisted by corpus in senior high school under the guidance of schema theory. Through the word frequency list extracted from corpus, students are guided to predict the main topic of the text, so as to realize the lead-in of reading text, and trained to predict and to grasp the main facts, further to explore the content of articles and paragraphs through keyword list and concordance line, so as to map the text structure, which may contribute to students' reading skills of skimming and grasping key information; Finally, the corpus-based approach can also be used in the teaching of vocabulary and grammar at the linguistic level after acquiring the structure and content of the text at a macro level.
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