图式理论与外语文本阅读理解

图示理论是认知心理学家用以解释心理过程的一种理论。但近二十年来,它成为阅读理论的研究重点。传统的阅读理论把阅读过程看作是一个被动的接受过程,是一个自下而上的模式,即从文本到人脑的过程。而现代图式阅读理论将阅读过程视为自上而下的模式,阅读理解过程被看作是一个主动的、有目的的、有创造性的心理过程,读者在阅读过程中试图构建文本意义。本文探讨了图式理论在外语文本阅读理解中的应用。

Schema Theory and Foreign Text Reading Comprehension

Schema theory is a theory to explain psychology processing by cognitive psychologists. But now, it is employed in the study of reading comprehension. Contrary to the traditional reading theory which considers reading a bottom-up process as well as a passively receptive action, the schema theory stresses the active role of readers in constructing the meaning of a text. The author here probes into the foreign text reading comprehension under the guidance of schema theory.