The Effect Of Schema Theory And EMSR On The Fast Reading Among College Students

For a long time, the topic of reading has been viewed as a critical issue for both first and second language educators and researchers. The thesis combines the theory analysis and experiment to investigate. The questionnaire, teaching strategy and fast reading tests are adopted in the experiment. 60 first-year non-English major undergraduates in Jilin University participated in the experiment to explore the effect of the 10-week's training of the schema-theoretic approaches and the EMSR on fast reading. The experiment group consisted of 30 undergraduates from College of Finance; the control group included 30 students from College of Literature. The variables such as age, gender, native language, and vocabulary level were controlled so as not to cloud my results. In the control group students only receive the traditional teaching on reading, while in the experiment group activities connected with schema-theoretic approaches and skills of EMSR were included in the instruction, which include three stages (schema-theoretic applications Instruction; the training of EMSR and the questionnaire) to acknowledge students' fast reading barriers and to solve the problems with the schema-theoretic approaches and skills of EMSR. Then the result and the data of the experiment were analyzed in quantity and quality.Besides a brief introduction and a conclusion, the thesis consists of five chapters. Chapter One is an introduction of the background of the study, statement of the problem and so on. Chapter Two comprises the review of the literature of the whole thesis, focusing on the detailed presentation of schema theory combined with EMSR as well. Chapter Three is concerned with the research methodology, illustrating with an experiment between a control group and an experiment group. Chapter Four is the analysis of the result and findings based on the experiment. Chapter Five is a brief conclusion.In theory the research of fast reading strategy is insufficient. And the combination of the schema theoretic approaches and EMSR is a new attempt. In teaching practice, the research of fast reading strategy has a positive effect on the EFL.The experiment has proved that fast-reading can be taught in a quite effective way, and the schema-theoretic approaches combined with EMSR is not only easy-to-use but also applicable in classroom teaching. Thus, the study has great pedagogical implications. I hope this thesis can benefit both college teachers and students.