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EnglishTeachinginReadingSkills王超论文

Title:

EnglishTeachinginReadingSkills

Author:

WangChao

Supervisor:

WuWenquan

AThesis

SubmittedasaPartialFulfillmentof

theRequirementfortheDegreeofB.A.inEnglish

SuZhouCollege,AnhuiProvince

May,2011

EnglishTeachinginReadingSkills

Outline

Ⅰ.Introduction

Ⅱ.EnglishReadingAbility

1.Basedontextbooks,tocarryouttheoverallteaching

（1）Pre-reading,teachers,andtaughtanumberofdifficultwordsorphrases,orimpedethemeaningofthewordorphrasetext

（2）whenreadinordertoreadthedetailsofthecore,rationalanalysisofthenatureandstructureoftextfeatures,takeadifferentreadingmethodstoimprovestudentsabilitytoaccessandprocessinformation,thusall-roundwaytoimprovestudentsreadingskills

Ⅲ.BriefandConcisereading

Carefulselectionandtrainingofreadingskillsandmethods.

（1）Inspection

（2）Prediction

Ⅳ.Word-guessing

Strengthentheextra-curricularreading,broadentheirknowledge

1.Timingofquantitativereading,improvereadingspeed

2.Cultivatereadinghabits,improvereadingefficiency

4.Emphasisontheword,sentence,paragraph,stepbystep

Ⅴ.Summary

EnglishTeachinginReadingSkills

Abstract

EnglishreadingskillsisimportantandnecessaryforlearningEnglish,,readingabilityisoneaboutlanguagecomprehension.Intoday’sEnglishlanguagelearningandusingEnglishreadinghasanimportantpositionwhichisreflectedinthereadingskillsdevelopmentandtrainingsothatstudentshaveatrulycomprehensivereadingskillsandabilitywhichincludethelevelofunderstandingandreadingspeed.AsfollowsaremyviewsaboutimprovingtheEnglishreadingability：

First,basedonbooks,tocarryouttheoverallteaching;

Second,throughinspection,prediction,word-guessingmethodsandtechniques;Third,throughextensivereading,timingreadingtoenhancestudentsreadingspeedandability.

Keywords:

Englishreading,cultureandtraining,theoverallteaching,readingspeedandability

摘要：

英语阅读技能，是学习英语的一项必备的重要条件，阅读能力是一项语言综合运用能力。

在当今的英语学习、用应中占据举足轻重的地位。

体现在阅读技能的的培养和训练，使学生具有真正全面的阅读理解能力，其主要包括理解程度和阅读速度，本文就提高阅读能力浅谈几点看法：

一、课本，开展整体教学；

二、通过查阅，预测，猜词等方法和技巧；

三、泛读，定时定量阅读提高学生阅读速度和能力。

关键词：

阅读能力、培养和训练、整体教学、阅读速度和能力

1.Introduction

   Asreadingisapartofacademicliteracy,Englishteachersusuallyhavehighexpectationsofastudent'sabilitytocopewiththedemandsofreadinginEnglish.Mostcollegestudentswishtoreadmorebooks.Readingisawayforcollegestudentstobemoreknowledgeableandsuccessful.However,itisalsoanactivitythatmanycollegestudentsdon’tenjoyverymuch.Tosucceedatschools,studentsneedtopossessarangeofstrategiesandskillsthatsupportself-directedlearning.Traditionally,manyofthesestrategiesandskills,someofwhicharehighlygeneric,arenotexplicitlytaughttostudentsintheexpectationthatstudentseitheralreadyhavetheseskills,orwillnaturallyacquireanddeveloptheseskillsintheircourseofstudy.Inordertoimprovethecollegestudents’abilityofEnglishreading,weshouldanswerthefollowingquestions:

WhataretheEnglishreadinghabitsofstudents?

Howtobecomeaneffectivereader?

HowtofostertheEnglishreadinghabits?

2.Thecharacteristicsofcollegestudents

    Withthedevelopmentofsociety,scienceandtechnologydevelopathighspeedandthecompetitioninthesocietybecomesharp.Studiesinthepasthaveshownthattheexam-orientededucationalsystempromotesrotelearning,andsothatthereneedstobeaparadigmshiftinhowthecollegestudentsvieweducationandaboutthewaytheylearn.MostcollegestudentsreadEnglishmaterialsonlytopassexamsanddonotreadforpleasure.However,thesituationchangesnow.Inordertobecomewell-learntpeoplethatthesocietyneeds,mostcollegestudentslongforextensiveEnglishreading,hopingtodopreparationforthefuturejobbythisway.Atthesametime,thepurposesofcollegestudentsaretocompletethestudiesandtoobtaingoodresults.Inordertoadapttothedemandsofsocietyandschool,collegestudentstreatseekingknowledgeasthefirstduty.Theyrelatethemselvestothesocietyclosely,hopingtoenrichthemselvesthroughreadingandbecomethelearnedpersonswhocanfacethechallengesofthesociety.Therefore,themotivationofthemajorityofcollegestudentsisdefinite.ItisalsoobviousthattheEnglishreadingmaterialsgraduallychangefromthepapermaterialstotheelectronicreadingmaterials.TheInternetthatopensanotherwindowforthecollegestudentsbecomesthemostconvenienttoolforcollegestudentstogetinformation.Nowtheseriousproblemisthatcollegestudentscanreadonsomelevel,butmanydonotreadeffectively.Inotherwords,manycollegestudentstakeitforgrantedthattheycouldunderstandconceptsorlessonsbymemorizingtheEnglishwordsandinformationratherthanunderstandingtheideasthatareexpressedbythewords.Consequently,informationisretainedmainlyforthepurposeofpassinganexam;memorizationismistakenforlearning.

3.EffectiveEnglishreadingstrategies

   Becausealargeportionoftimeatschoolsisspentonworkingwithwrittensources,andbecausetherearelotsofEnglishmaterialstobecoveredinashortamountoftime,itisessentialthatreadingbehaviorsofEnglishmajorsshouldbebothpurposefulandefficient.Readingistalkinganddiscussingwiththereaderhimself,withtheauthorandothers.Soasthereaders,thefirstthingforthereadersdoistoaccumulateinformationbeforereading.Toensurethegoodresultsofreading,thecollegestudentsalsoneedtodevelopeffectivereadingstrategies.Knowinghowtoreadeffectivelyinvolvesaccumulatingbackgroundinformationbeforereading,selectingtheEnglishmaterials,understandingthestructureoftexts,howtoreadfordifferentpurposes,andhowtoreflectonyourreading.

3.1Accumulatingbackgroundinformationbeforereading

‘‘Readingisareceptivelanguageprocess.Itisapsycholinguisticprocessinthatitstartswithalinguisticsurfacerepresentationencodedbyawriterandendswithmeaningsthatthereaderconstructs.Thereisthusanessentialinteractionbetweenlanguageandthoughtinreading.Thewriterencodesthoughtsaslanguageandthereaderencodesthelanguagetothought.’’Readingisnotpassivebutactive,andinfactaninteractiveprocessthathasbeenrecognizedforsometimeinfirstornativelanguagereading.IntheEnglishreading,itisaprocessthatneedsnotonlythecollegestudents’activeparticipation,predicationandinformationprocessing,butalsotheirpriorexperienceandbackgroundknowledge.

   TheculturalfactorsplayanimportantroleintheprocessofEnglishreading.Someculturalfactorscauseproblemsinreadingdirectlysoastoconfusecollegestudentsandhindertheirunderstanding.Otherculturemisunderstandingsmaydangleintheirmindandpreventthemfromgraspingtherealmeaning.Cultureandlanguagearecloselyrelatedtoeachother.Asonewayofcommunication,readingEnglishmaterialsreflectculturaldifferencesthroughthelanguageinwrittenform.Thereadersshouldawaretheculturaldifferencesandtrytheirbesttoaccumulatebackgroundknowledgeofallsorts.Sothefirstpieceofadvicethatwillbegivenhereistodoasmuchreadingasthestudentscan.

   Collegestudentsintheschoolcanmakeuseofthelibraryresourcestosupporttheirstudyandself-learning.ThekindsofresourcesincludeEnglishbooks,Englishjournalarticles,Englishmagazines,etc.,aswellasawiderangeoflibraryservices.Nowthousandsofbooks,magazines,journalarticlesandnewspapershaveelectricalversions.Itisnodoubtthatthecollegestudents’taskwillbemucheasieriftheyknowsomewebsitestheyreallywanttofindonline.

3.2ImprovingyourEnglishreadingstrategies

3.2.1Choicereading

     Choicereadingisveryimportant.ActuallyitisaprocessofselectingEnglishmaterials.ThereadershouldclearlyrecognizetheclassificationoftheEnglishbooksandshouldcertainlyknowwhichtypeofEnglishbookheisreading.Itisbestifthereaderknowhispurposeofreadingbeforereadingstarts.Itmeansthatthereadershouldturnhisattentiontopracticalgoals.Toreceivetheinformation,thereadercanreadnotonlythebooktitle,thesubtitle,thetableofcontents,butalsotheauthor'spreface,theabstractintroductionandtheindex.Thesearealltheinformationthatauthorswanttotransmittothereader.Accordingtotheseclues,thecollegestudentscanchoosedifferenttypesofEnglishreadingmaterialswiththedifferentdemands.ThecollegestudentsshouldalsobeawarethatdifferentreadingskillsshouldbeadoptedwhentheEnglishreadingmaterialaredifferent.

3.2.2HowtoselectEnglishsources

   Inordertogetusefulinformation,thecollegestudentshadbetteranswerthefollowingtwoquestions:

HowwellthoseEnglishsourcesmeetthepurposeofreading?

Howreliablytheauthorpresentsthoseideasandinformationinthebook?

Thecollegestudentshavebetterreadthingstheyareinterestedinsothatthehardworkrequiredforcomprehensionwillseemmuchmorepleasurable．Also，thecollegestudentswillbemuchmoreeagertounderstandwhattheyarereading，notonlyasameanstoimprovetheirreadingcomprehension，butalsoasameansto betterunderstandtheinterestingsubject-matter.TheprocessofselectinganEnglishsourceincludesexaminingitspublisher,itsreferenceanditsauthor（s）.Dependingonthereader’spurposeofreading,itcanalsoinvolveassessingtimeliness.SomewaysofselectingEnglishsourcesarefollows:

（i）Paymoreattentiontothetimeliness

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