Abstract: This essay aims to retrospect some theories proposed by prominent scholars from home and abroad, such as Kant, Bartlett and Rumelhart. They expanded the applications of schema theory to different fields. The essay focuses on the close relationship between schema theory and middle school English teaching. At the beginning of the essay, author analyzes the current situations and features of middle school English teaching and also discusses about the possibility and profound meanings of applying schema theory into middle school English teaching. This essay discusses the application of schema theory from different perspectives of English teaching: reading, listening, writing and oral English teaching. The essay respectively analyzes the unique roles these four aspects play in English teaching and schema theory’s positive influences. In addition, author also proposes some creative methods to applying schema theory into listening, reading, writing and oral English teaching. Author dedicates to find the blind spots in current application of schema theory so as to seek acceptable solutions to settle these problems. In the final part of the essay, author summarizes the inspiration schema theory exerts on middle school English teaching and frankly points out the limitation of the very essay and hopes that the limitation can be remedied in later researches.

Key words: schema theory, reading, listening, writing, spoken English

CONTENTS 

摘要

Abstract

1. Introduction1

1.1 Middle school English Teaching

   1.1.1 Features of Current English teaching in middle school

   1.1.2 Psychological features of middle school students 

2. Literature Review and Theoretical Framework.3

2.1 Schema Theory

   2.1.1 Definition of Schema

   2.1.2 Features and Classification of Schema

3. Schema Theory and Reading Teaching in Middle School. 5

3.1 Role of Reading in Middle school English Teaching

3.2 Current Situation of Reading Teaching in Middle School

3.3 Advantages of Schema Theory in Reading Teaching

  3.4 How to Apply Schema Theory into Reading Teaching

4. Schema Theory and Listening Teaching in Middle School Schema Theory 8

4.1 Role of Listening in Middle school English Teaching

4.2 Current Situation of Listening Teaching in Middle School

4.3 Advantages of Schema Theory in Listening Teaching

  4.4 How to Apply Schema Theory into Listening Teaching

5. Schema Theory and Writing Teaching in Middle School11

5.1 Current Situation of Writing Teaching in Middle School

5.2 The Methods and Influence of Schema Theory on Writing Teaching

6. Schema Theory and spoken English Teaching in Middle School12

6.1 Disadvantages of Current Spoken English Teaching in Middle School

6.2 Necessity of the Combination of Schema Theory and Spoken English Teaching

6.3 How to Activate Spoken English Teaching by Schema Theory

7. Conclusion14

  7.1 Inspiration of Schema Theory on English Teaching in Middle School

  7.2 limitations of This Essay

Bibliography.16

Acknowledgements17