Abstract:
In recent years, task-based teaching approach has already drawn public attention in China. The task-based teaching which is “students centered” can encourage student’s activity and initiative. And nowadays reading is main way for people for people to get information, it is also the basic skill that student should acquire in English teaching. As we know, reading comprehension is most important in all kinds of English examination, therefore English teaching has become the difficult and important part in English teaching. So this paper will focuses on the application of the task-based teaching approach in reading teaching. The students will read, analyze and summarize reading passages by themselves. According to the basic principles of task-based teaching which are input hypothesis, interaction hypothesis and output hypothesis used in English reading teaching, and there are three steps “pre-reading, while-reading and post-reading”. The purpose of the paper is to stress that the task-based teaching approach is an effective way to improve students’ comprehensive reading quality. At the same time it must be realized that students can read on their own while the teachers act as their directors. Therefore, the teachers should design the teaching plans not only depending on the teaching material, but also on student’s individual characters. However, no one thing is perfect, task-based teaching approach still exist some disadvantages; It will be referred it in the paper. 

Keywords: task-based teaching approach; English reading teaching; advantages; disadvantages

摘要：
近年来，任务型教学法在中国收到了广泛的关注。任务型教学法强调的是以学生为中心，老师鼓励并调动学生的积极性和参与性。现在，阅读是人们获得信息的主要途径，也是学生通过老师的教学所获得的一门技巧，众所周知，阅读在国内的任何一种英语考试当中都占有很准重要的位置，因此，英语阅读的教学也是很重要的。所以在本篇论文中将着重介绍任务型教学法在英语阅读中的运用，通过使用任务型教学法学生将自己独立的阅读分析和总结文章，根据任务型教学法的基本准则可分为输入假说，互动假说以及输出假说，将此理论运用在英语阅读教学中就是阅读前，阅读中以及阅读后。所以写这篇论文的目的在于强调任务型教学法是提高学生阅读效率的一条有效途径。与此同时，还必须意识到学生是学习的主体而老师起的是引导作用。因此老师不紧要因材施教更要因人施教。但是没有一种教学方法是完美的，包括任务型教学法它也存在着一些缺陷，这也将在本篇论文中提出。

关键词：任务型教学法；英语阅读教学；优点；缺点

1 Introduction
Nowadays English learning is typically knowledge centered and exam centered. Teachers are the superior part of the classroom, while students just receive what teachers teach in a passive way. To a certain extend, the appearance of task-based teaching approach proved the theoretical principle for revering the current teaching situation. In the task-based teaching, the teachers are the designers, organizations and evaluators of the activity, while the students are the main parts of the activity or the actual operator. However, it is totally opposite to the present Chinese teaching theory.