英语阅读教学是教师的教与学生的学一起组成的教学活动,然而通过教学与观察,发现高职英语阅读课上,学生是被动地学,老师的教学也是传统模式下的单词、句法详细分析的讲解方法。这些导致高职英语阅读教学费时低效。从认知心理学的角度,运用图式理论探讨高职英语阅读教学的方法,从而改变当前阅读教学费时低效的现状。 English reading teaching is a teaching activity composed of teacher’s teaching and student’s learning. However, through the teaching and observation, it is found that in the vocational English reading class, the students are passive learning, the teaching of the teacher is also the words in the traditional mode, and the syntax is analyzed in detail Explain the method. These lead to higher vocational English reading teaching time-consuming and inefficient. From the perspective of cognitive psychology, this paper uses schema theory to explore the method of English reading teaching in higher vocational colleges, so as to change the current situation of time-consuming and inefficient reading teaching.