Ways of Improving Reading Comprehension_英语论文

摘要

现代社会对于英语教学提出了更高的要求，英语教学已经不局限在教师主体讲授，书本里，或者是简单的几张考卷上，现代英语教学对教师和学生均提出了更高的要求，批判性思维，阅读与表达能力成为了英语学习的一个重要目的，应试考试则不再成为单一评价标准。那么阅读能力如此重要，我们显然要着重培养学生的阅读能力，然而提高阅读能力并不是一次讲座或者是一次授课就能完成的，犹如滴水穿石，这是一个漫长的过程。现代英语教学提倡运用多媒体为学生提供大量的词汇进行教学，增加其阅读量，分发大量数字阅读材料。多媒体打破了时空的界限，加速了学生学习的进程与效率，与此同时教师对学生能够针对指导，讲授科学的方法，培养学生良好的阅读习惯。阅读作为一种理解一个话题的活动，对于帮助启迪个人的生活有巨大帮助，它帮助人们与时俱进，在其思想中不断注入活力。阅读是一个阅读者重复思考的动态过程，阅读的重要性则变得显而易见。但是教师在实际操作上出现了些许滞后，如何将课堂中的英语教学从“死”教到“活”教，从片面的语言点教学到提高阅读能力教学，从忽视阅读能力对于学生对帮助学生获取更多信息、知识，拓展视野，激发学习兴趣，提高人文素养，提高分析、思考能力、判断能力到提高学生综合语言运用能力，对于此种现状，本研究旨在对初中学生英语阅读能力与阅读策略，阅读习惯，态度情感等之间的关系做出阐述，并提出自己的观点，有望对初中学生英语能力的提高有帮助。

关键词：阅读 阅读能力 阅读策略

Abstract

The modern society has put forward higher requirements for English teaching. What a modern English class needs is no more than a teacher-directed class environment, or the textbook. Critical thinking, reading comprehension and the ability of expressing personal ideas have become the most important goal of learning a foreign language. Now that reading is so important, what we teachers need to do is to cultivate students’ reading skills. However, developing students’ reading ability seems impossible within one class, which is a long process. We call for using modern media to teach students a lot of vocabularies, increasing the number of reading materials. Modern media breaks the limitation between space and time. And it fastens the students’ learning process and proficiency. An the same time, teachers can give the special instruction to each students, teaching scientific method of solving problems, cultivating students’ reading habit. Reading is an activity of comprehending a topic, which gives useful help to an individual’s life. Reading is a dynamic process in which readers think over a problem or a solution for many times. It’s obvious for us to find the importance of reading. Considering that teachers always neglect the importance of cultivating students’ reading ability, this article is aimed at developing students reading skills, reading habits and attitude. And I wish it could be helpful to the teachers and students.

Key words: Reading; Reading Comprehension; Reading Skills

Contents

1  Introduction 1

1.1 Research background, purposes and contents 1

1.2 Significance of the study 1

1.3 Structure of the study 2

2  Literature Review 3

2.1 General introduction of Reading and reading comprehension 3

2.2 Importance of Reading 3

2.3 Introduction to Reading Models 4

3  Ways of Improving Reading Comprehension 6

3.1 Knowledge about differences between Chinese and western culture 6

3.2 Cultivation of the habit of reading 7

3.3 Combination among listening, writing and reading with the help of Internet 9

4  Conclusion 11

4.1 Implications 11

4.2 Limitations 11

4.3 Suggestions for future research 11

Bibliography 12

Acknowledgments 13