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1、本科毕业设计effective ways of english reading teaching in high schools 英语专业 本科毕业论文设计 学 生： 学 号： 专 业： 英 语 班 级： 2010 级 1 班 指导教师： ContentAbstract 3Introduction 4I. Current Situations of English Reading Teaching in High Schools 4A. Problems in Current English Reading Teaching in High Schools 41. Lack of Intere

2、st 42. Failing to Develop Students Communicative Competence 53. Lack of Interaction 54. Lack of Moral Lessons 65. Failing to Develop the Students Reading Strategies 6B. Causes of the Problems 6II. The Effective Methods of English Reading Teaching 7A. Ways to Motivate the Students Interest in Reading

3、 7B. Means to Develop the Students Productive Competence 8C. Increasing Interaction in Reading Class 9D. Giving Moral Lessons While Teaching 11E. Employing Scientific Reading and Teaching Strategies 111. Correcting the Students Bad Reading Habits 112. Cultivating the Students Skimming and Scanning S

4、kills 123. Teaching Grammar and Vocabulary in the Context 13Conclusion 13Notes.15Bibliography16Acknowledgements.17Abstract: Training students reading ability is quite important. But some problems still exist in reading teaching. This paper will talk about what problems exist in reading teaching and

5、how to deal with these problems.Key Words: existing problems; causes; effective ways; high schools摘要：培养学生的阅读能力相当的重要，但是在阅读教学中仍然存在着许多的问题。这篇论文将会提出阅读教学中存在的问题，以及如何解决这些问题。关键词：现存问题；原因；有效方法；中学Effective Ways of English Reading Teaching in High SchoolsIntroduction In the society of the knowledge explosion and

6、 information revolution, text is still the best carrier of information across time and space; it is the best way for long-range communication of experience, thoughts and feelings; it is the best media for human to convey scientific and cultural information; it is also the best tool for the transmiss

7、ion of civilization. Hence if you hope to gain a large number of needed information and keep pace with the times, you have to learn to read and improve your reading ability. Reading is the one of main ways to obtain knowledge and information for senior high school students. Also, it is one of the mo

8、st significant four language skills. As we know, the listening, speaking, reading and writing are the four language skills. Reading is helpful for learners to develop their linguistic capacity. And reading comprehension takes the most crucial part in all kinds of English tests, even in the college e

9、ntrance examination. Teachers put a high value on the reading teaching, particularly in senior high school, because of those factors. However, the teachers lecture in a reading class takes a crucial part in the practical teaching process. So the whole reading class becomes a stage for a teacher to t

10、each linguistic knowledge with grammar translation approach.1 There are some problems in reading teaching. So this essay mainly illustrates the importance of reading ability, the existing problems of English reading teaching, causes of these problems, and the effective ways of English reading teachi

11、ng in high schools.I. Current Situations of English Reading Teaching in High SchoolsA. Problems in Current English Reading Teaching in High SchoolsThe current English reading teaching fails to develop students reading ability and other linguistic capacity as well as has some other problems. 1. Lack

12、of InterestIn current reading class, the teachers role is always dominant and active. They always direct the learning process, supervise and correct the students behavior. And they attach too much importance to their own lectures. However, the students role is passive, learning grammar and vocabular

13、y only through the teachers analyzation of sentences. In this way, a whole passage is totally torn to pieces. Whats more, most of the teachers always pay little attention to the significance of pre-reading activity. Through communicating with many teachers in senior high school, you can find easily

14、that lead-in is just a waste of time in their mind. And teachers also always choose some outdated materials in the teaching process. In this case, the reading class must be extremely dull. And further more, the students interest cannot be stimulated.2. Failing to Develop Students Communicative Compe

15、tenceAs we all know, the input skills are reading and listening while the output skills are writing and speaking among the four basic language skills. In China, the people here say Chinese rather than English. Therefore, English learners have no language environment here. So reading is always regard

16、ed as the main methods for learners to gain knowledge and information. Therefore, it is a popular topic that how to cope with the relevance between input and output in the process of reading teaching. In the current reading class, teachers only follow the schedule of the college entrance examination

17、. They almost spent all the time of a class on explaining linguistic knowledge. And there is little chance for students to develop their creative thinking and to speak English in the class. In this case, it is hard for students to improve their communicative capacity.3. Lack of InteractionIn the pro

18、cess of reading teaching, the class is strictly dominated by teachers so that the students have little chance to practice English in class. The students present their own thoughts only to their teachers questions. They are afraid to show their thoughts and opinions positively and freely. Gradually,

19、when talking with other people in English, they find that there are some problems. So finally, they are reluctant to speak English because they think their English is poor and they are afraid of making mistakes while communicating. So in such a circumstance, the teacher is the main practitioner rath

20、er than the students. And the teacher plays the active role; however, the students are passive. The interaction between teachers and students and between students is farther enough.4. Lack of Moral LessonsNowadays more and more people begin to realize that the moral decline in our society is quite s

21、evere. Since the reform and opening-up, the economic construction has been paid more attention to while the moral construction has been paid less attention to in our country. The education system is a good example in this point. Most teachers only judge whether a student is good or not through their

22、 marks. They ignore moral lessons in the process of teaching. In English reading class, most of the teachers are willing to spend the time on explaining linguistic knowledge while they are reluctant to spend the time on the moral aspect. And there is little time for group work activities so that stu

23、dents can not develop their cooperative personality.5. Failing to Develop the Students Reading StrategiesTeachers pay little attention to give adequate training on the reading strategies towards their students and encourage the students to use the strategies to enhance their reading comprehension. O

24、nly new vocabularies and grammar rules are taught by most teachers. It has students just understand the literal meaning of the passage and it makes them develop a wrong mind that the task of reading is to learn some language points and grammar. If this situation still exists, the right reading strat

25、egies can never be grasped by students. Besides, it will be hard for students to improve their reading ability. 2B. Causes of the ProblemsThe problems in current English reading teaching in high schools have been analyzed. Obviously, the current teaching is not good for developing students reading a

26、bility and promoting students all-round development. Then what are the causes of these problems? To begin with, the current English reading teaching in high schools takes a teacher-centered method. Teachers play the active role in class. They design the reading class depending on their own opinions

27、without taking students into consideration. More over, some teachers misunderstand the purpose of reading teaching. Whats more, the most important one must be the examination-oriented education. Influenced by the examination-oriented education system, the reading teaching gets an opposite result for

28、 teachers blindly pursue a faster teaching progress and ignore to cultivate the students reading ability. II. The Effective Methods of English Reading TeachingA. Ways to Motivate the Students Interest in ReadingInterest is an important factor to guide someone to their dreams. It is a kind of motivat

29、ion. It is also ones determination to reach a higher height. Also, as an English saying goes, interest is half of the success. Generally speaking, if students are interested in reading, they will show more active in their English reading study. However, nowadays a lot of students are lack of interes

30、t in reading because of the teacher-centered teaching method. Therefore, teachers hoping to improve students reading ability, motivating the students interest should be the most crucial thing. To motivate the students interest, there are two means to arouse their interest in the following. Applying

31、Appropriate pre-reading activitiesThere is an English saying: well begun is half done. A good beginning is not only good for making a good preparation for showing new materials but also helpful for arousing the students interest. If the pre-reading activity is well-designed, students can concentrate

32、 on the class and learn English well easily. Pre-reading activities are activities that teachers do at the beginning of the lesson, which, just take a short time in a lesson, can achieve a wide range of purposes: these can be used to cultivate early levels of engagement and motivation; to make all students soon on task; to inject a sense of pace in the lesson; to create an expectation that students will think and join in the