英语专业毕业论文范文

　　Thematic Progress and its Application in the Teaching of ReadingAbstract: Thematic progression is the outline of text content. It is restrictedby genres. An analysis of an expository essay is done to study the relationbetween thematic progression and test content, and its application in theteaching of reading.

　　Key words: thematic progression, text content genre, teaching reading.

　　Part 1 Form of thematic progressionMathesius was a founder of the Bulager School. He thought most sentences couldbe delimited two parts early time: One is theme, the other is rheme. Themeusually lies in the front of the sentence, and tells us something about thesubject in communication. But Theme narrates the subject context, which expoundsand explains the subject. So theme stands for known information and rheme is newones. From the value of sentence of view, rheme is important because it passeson the new information. But from the function of text of view, theme is moreimportant because it can express the organization form and logic function withits information. So Halliday also agreed with Mathesius’ theory. He haddifferent view about delimitation of theme and rheme. Halliday thought thattheme includes many contents, including the subject and another parts ofsentence. He brought up the concepts about “simple theme” “multiple theme” and“clause theme”.

　　According to the theory of the delimitation of theme and rheme, every sentencehas its own theme and rheme. When a sentence is independent, theme and rheme arefor sure. But people often use the language unit in practical communication. Wecall national language as words and writing. In text content, each sentence notonly has relation with grammar and semantic with the development of theme andrheme. Theme’s effect correlates the beginning of the sentence and acts thestarting point of the ending one, too. The correlation, joining andover-relation form thematic progression. Danes sum up patterns of thematicprogression by careful research. They carried out three basic thematicprogressions: simple development type, continuity development type andderivative development type. Huang Yan synthesized the predecessors’ researchachievement and pointed 7 progression of continuity text. So English thematicprogression has several types: