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1、The Analysis of Reading Barriers in English Major and the Countermeasures英语论文AbstractThe thesis aims to highlight the important role that reading plays in the university English study. University English reading is an effective approach to enlarging vocabulary, strengthening language knowledge, enri

2、ching expressing skills and improving expressing quality. In practice, listening and speaking are important, however, without reading, it is impossible to improve oral expressing quality, nor achieve the goal of writing and translating.The thesis adopted a questionnaire, 80 university English major

3、were participated in the investigation. The analysis of results was performed in the form of tables and a column chart.Finally, from the questionnaire that has been carried out, analyze the statistics and summarize some countermeasures, stimulant students interests, cultivate students reading skills

4、, input foreign culture and give them some reading strategies to solve the problem. It aims to help students develop good reading habits and improve their reading ability.Key words：English major English reading Influential factors Countermeasures摘要本文的目的是为了进一步强调英语阅读在大学生英语学习中的重要作用。大学英语阅读既是扩大词汇的有效途径，也是

5、巩固已有语言知识，丰富表达技巧，提高表达质量的有效途径。在实际中，听和说是重要的，但如果没有阅读，口语表达质量的提高就很难提高。就不可能有向写和译方面转化的质的飞跃。 本文采用了问卷调查的形式对80名英语专业的大学生进行了调查，调查结果分别用表格和柱形图进行了分析。最后,从所调查的问卷，分别从激起学生兴趣、培养学生的阅读技巧、进行相应的外国文化输入以及对待不同文章的阅读策略方面总结了一些解决问题的对策，旨在帮助学生养成良好阅读习惯及提高阅读能力。关键词：英语专业 英语阅读 影响因素 对策ContentsAbstract .i摘要.iiChapter One Introduction .1Cha

6、pter Two Literature Review.32.1 The Definition of Reading32.2 Factors Involved in English Reading.42.3Three Models of Reading.5 2.3.1 bottom-up approach.52.3.2 top-down approach62.3.3 interactive model.7Chapter Three Research Methodology.83.1 Research Objective.83.2 Subjects83.3 Instrument.83.4 Proc

7、edure.9Chapter Four Results and Countermeasures.104.1 Results and Analysis from Questionnaire.104.2 The Analysis of Influential Factors.114.2.1 Linguistic factors.124.2.2 Non-linguistic factors.154.3Countermeasures.17 4.3.1Reading strategies.174.3.2Stimulating Students Interest.17 4.3.3Inputting cul

8、ture.18Chapter Five Conclusion.20References. .21Appendix I. .22Appendix II.23The Analysis of Reading Barriers in English Major and the CountermeasuresChapter One IntroductionWith the development and improvement of international exchange，English has become an essential tool for communication among pe

9、ople from different nations and regions. The present study is a survey study which attempts to emphasize the importance of English reading in university students study and to know some difficulties they meet when they are reading .It aims to summarize proper methods and countermeasures to help stude

10、nts improve their English reading ability.80 English major students were participated in this survey in the form of responding to a questionnaire.Reading is quite essential for language acquisition，especially in the environment of studying English as a foreign language. In present-day society，with t

11、he economic globalization，two-thirds of newspapers ,magazines and periodical spread in English all over the world. Therefore, English reading plays a very important role in college students acquisition of knowledge and analysis of English material increasingly. At present, reading is the major input

12、 of language, during the learning process of college students, among the four language skillslistening, speaking ,reading ,and writing, reading has accounted a lot. As Kristen(1985) said ,“reading is good for language acquisition; it promotes better spelling, better writing skills, higher reading co

13、mprehension and more advanced vocabulary.”Ones reading ability is a major indication of his integrative language proficiency. But compared with a lot of theoretical research in English reading, survey studies are superior to theoretical ones.Studies abroad，they are based on the design of good experi

14、ment to demonstrate the limitations of existing theories. It aims to revise and improve the existing theories (Inagaki S,2002). In contrary, studies at home, English reading research focused on schema theory to guide English reading and English teaching, application of reading strategies and theory

15、basis, the mental process of reading and so on(Yi,2003). In general, studies at home were more inclined to the worship of existing models and theories, to apply them directly.The present study is a survey study on the influential factors in college students English reading .With the help of a questi

16、onnaire, the present study attempts to find out the difficulties that college students always confront with in English reading and try to offer countermeasures to solve them. The thesis consists of five chapters. This chapter is an introduction. Chapter Two is a literature review，which gives the def

17、inition of reading and countermeasures，methods of reading and some related studies. Chapter three presents the research method，research question and data collection. Chapter Four describes the results and analysis from the questionnaire as well as effective countermeasures. And Chapter Five is the l

18、ast part of this study. It summarize the major findings，implications and also gives the recommendations for future studies.Chapter Two Literature ReviewThis chapter contains three sections. The first section is about the definition of reading and second section is about factors involved in English r

19、eading and the last one is three models of reading.2.1 The Definition of ReadingAuthorities and experts on the teaching of reading have different views on what reading is. In general terms, reading involves the reader, the text, and the interaction between reader and text .According to Douglas(1981:

20、82),the nature of silent reading is about the behavior of a reader. The text and the reader do not constitute actual reading. What constitutes actual reading is the interaction between the text and reader.Francoise(1981:5) defined from the aspect of information ,“Understanding a written text means e

21、xtracting the required information from it as efficiently as possible. ”This means reading is a comprehensive process. Wilga(1987:187) describes a similar idea that reading is a complex, actively thinking psychological activity, which is not a passive, but rather an active process. Reading is also a

22、 completely individual activity. It is the mental activities that readers focus on in order to construct his meaning and understanding from a text.However, Nuttal(1982:222) disagreed that reading necessarily involved understanding:“reading is the identification of linguistic forms from strings of wr

23、itten configuration that present them, as evidenced by producing the conventional signs for the same linguistic form in some other system of representation.”Although there are different views about a precise definition of reading, the most useful and practical one to todays English reading is not on

24、ly an active process, but also a comprehensive process. In English reading, find weakness and try to close the gap.2.2 Factors Involved in English reading Students often have difficulties in improving their reading ability. These difficulties not only result from their method of learning, but mostly

25、 from their lack of basic knowledge about sentence structures, parts of speech, tense, voice, and non-predicting verbs and so on. Also they are lacking of vocabulary and some background knowledge of the English- speaking countries. In view of Krash(1985:103), three sub-factors need to be taken accou

26、nt into their part to promote reading competence. They are adequate vocabulary, ability to speculate on lexical meanings and awareness of lexical deviations. Vocabulary serves as the most preliminary foundation for English reading comprehension. But only few students admit that they have adequate vo

27、cabulary to fulfill their understanding.Grammar roles and sentence patterns are also fundamental elements in English reading. Because of the grammar confusion, students often do not understand the reading material although they know all the words. If the students are unable to distinguish the main c

28、lause from a subordinate clause and are unable to know their relationships, despite understanding the meaning of every word in the sentence, understanding is unlikely to occur with accuracy.Language is rather like a mirror that reflects the national culture of its speaker. The American linguist Sapi

29、r thinks the language cannot exist without culture. Culture can be explained as what the society does and thinks, and the language is the expression the ideas of society. Obviously, culture is one of the keys in English reading. Therefore, confronted with cultural differences，readers should be given the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the target culture.Mother tongue is a double edged sword, on the one hand, reading habits and reading experiences of the mother tongue may facilitate English reading. On the other hand, the native patte