Abstract: In the process of English Teaching for students, reading teaching, as an important part, not only promotes students' reading and writing ability, but also helps to cultivate students' English core literacy. Under the modern schema theory, related researchers believe that reading is not only through guiding students to identify words and understand the meaning of the text, but also a more complex psychological process, which requires students to explore it comprehensively in the process of reading. Therefore, it is necessary for College English teachers to construct students' mental schema effectively, activate students' schema thinking, and promote students' reading ability through discourse, cultural background and other materials. Based on this, this paper briefly explores the construction of students' psychological schema in College English reading teaching, hoping to provide some help for the better development of college students.

Key words: College education, English reading teaching, Mental schema, Construction strategy