英语论文How to Cultivate Senior High School Students Reading Competence in English Teaching.docx
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英语论文HowtoCultivateSeniorHighSchoolStudentsReadingCompetenceinEnglishTeaching
HowtoCultivateSeniorHighSchoolStudents’ReadingCompetenceinEnglishTeaching
1.Introduction1
2.Threemodelsinreadingprocess3
2.1Bottom-upmodel3
2.2Top-downmodel4
2.3Theinteractionoftop-downandbottom-upprocessing5
3.Factorsaffectingreading6
3.1Vocabulary6
3.2Culturalbackground6
3.3Materials7
3.4Readingskills8
3.5Readinghabits9
4.Howtocultivateseniorhighschoolstudents’readingcompetence10
4.1Teacher’shelp10
4.1.1Choosingmaterials11
4.1.1.1Comprehensibility12
4.1.1.2Simplification12
4.1.1.3Interest13
4.1.1.4Sufficiency13
4.1.2Toenlargestudents’schemata14
4.1.2.1Contentschemata14
4.1.2.2LinguisticSchemata16
4.1.3Trainingstudentstohaveproperstrategiesofreading18
4.1.3.1Warming-up18
4.1.3.2Prediction19
4.1.3.3Fastreading19
4.1.3.4Howtomakeasummary21
4.2Students’effortoutsidetheclassroom22
4.2.1Readextensively22
4.2.2Toformvirtuouscircleofreading22
4.2.3Keeponreadingeveryday23
5.Conclusion24
References25
1.Introduction
Readingaswellaslisteningisachiefmeansofobtaininginformation,anditisoneoftheimportantmeansofgainingdifferentkindsofknowledgeandofbenefitingfromtheachievements.Individualscouldnotadvancewithoutreading,forreadingcanarousepeople’scuriosityabouttheworldandthendevelopstheirqualitiesinEnglishlanguageandhumanities.Readingisanimportantlanguageinput.Therefore,thestudyofhowtomakegooduseofthismeansofinputandoptimizethereadinginputisofgreatsignificance.Withtheaimofmakingstudentshaveaccesstoalotofcomprehensibleandeffectivereadingtexts,thedifficultyofmaterials,thesufficiencyofreadingandthemethodofreadingteachingshouldbewellstudied.
Whatareyourpurposesforreading?
Itisnotverylikelythatyouareinterestedinthepronunciationofwhatyouread,noryouareinterestedinthegrammaticalstructure.Youreadbecauseyoudowanttogetinformationfromwhatyouread,aswellastogetenjoyment,ideas,andfeelings.AccordingtoChristineNuttall(2002,8),readingisconcernedwiththetransferofmeaningfrommindtomind,thetransferofamessagefromwritertoreader.Meaningcomesfromaninteractionbetweenthoughtandlanguage,becausereadingisanactiveandinteractiveprocess.
Readingissoimportantthatwecan’tgetridofitinourdailylife.Thisisoneofthereasonswhyweshouldcultivatereadingcompetence.Inordertocultivatereadingcompetence,thedifficultyofmaterialsshouldbeappropriateforustoread.Ifwekeeponhavingaccesstothelevelof“i+1”advocatedbyKrashen(1997),wecanimprovereadingability.Howdoeslearnercultivatereadingcompetence?
Itcanbedescribedasfollows:
Whenyouarereadingamaterialinalanguageyouhavenotyetacquiredcompletely,andyouunderstandwhatissaid,thewriter“castsanet”ofstructuresaroundyourcurrentlevel.Thenetmayincludepreviouslylearnedknowledgeandthenewknowledge.Thisstructurecanbecalledschematicstructure,whichisanabstractknowledgestructure.BasedonSchemaTheory,thisthesisattemptstodiscusshowtocultivateseniorhighschoolstudents’readingcompetenceinEnglishteaching.
2.Threemodelsinreadingprocess
Theprocessofcomprehensionisguidedbytheprinciplesthateveryinputismappedonsomeexistingschemaandthatallaspectsofthatschemamustbecompatiblewiththeinputinformation.Nunanillustratesthatthisprincipleresultsintwobasicmodelsofinformationprocessing:
thebottomupprocessingandtop-downprocessing.However,neitherofthemalonecouldensureanefficientreading.Generally,learnersareencouragedtousetheminteractivelyintheirreading.
2.1Bottom-upmodel
Thiswayofreadingreflectsthebeliefthatreadingcomprehensionisbasedontheunderstandingandmasteryofallthenewwords,newphrases,andnewstructures.Therefore,readersinthiswaywouldconcernnewvocabularyandnewstructuresfirstandthengooverthetextsentencebysentence.Thereaderbuildsupameaningfromrecognizinglettersandwords,workingoutsentencestructure.Ifourwordknowledgeisinadequate,orifthewriter’spointofviewisverydifferentfromourown,perhaps,wecannotbelievethatapparentmessageisreallyjustwhatthewriterintended.Besides,whenwereadsomethingwhichdoesnotcontainanynewwords,butsometimeswestillfinditdifficulttounderstanditsmeaning.Forexample,thesentence“Itisapieceofcake”containssimplewords,ifwejustdecodeeveryword,wedon’tknowitdescribesthethingswhichareeasy.
2.2Top-downmodel
Adifferentviewbelievesthatourbackgroundknowledgeplaysamoreimportantrolethannewwordsandnewstructuresinreadingcomprehension.Thisapproachoccurswhenreadersusepriorknowledgetomakepredictionsaboutthedatatheywillfindinatext.Thisiswhywecanunderstandanarticlewithsomenewwordsornewstructuresinit,becausewecanguessthemeaningofthearticlebasedonourknowledgeaboutthetopicwithouttoomuchdifficulty.Aclassictop-downtheoryisGoadman’sviewofreadingasapsycholinguisticguessinggame.Heclaimsthatwedrawonourownexperience,knowledgeandpredictionwecanmake,basedontheschematawehaveacquiredtounderstandthetext.Forexample,“Heissoluckythathepassedtheexam.Heisreallyaluckydog”.Althoughwedon’tknowwhatluckydogreallyis,wecanguessaccordingtotheformersentenceandmeaning.Therefore,wecanguesstheluckydogmeansapersonwhoisverylucky,whichisbasedonourownknowledge.However,thesoledependenceonTop-downmodelcanmakethereadersmisunderstandandmakeridiculousguessing.Theymayconfusedbytherelationshipofthe“luckydog”and“him”
2.3Theinteractionoftop-downandbottom-upprocessing
Thedisputesbetweenthetop-downandbottom-upmodelshavetobesolved.Nowithasgenerallybeenacceptedthatthereadingprocessisinteractive,soweadoptthetop-downmodeltopredicttheprobablemeaning,andthenmovetothebottom-upmodeltocheckwhetheritisreallywhatthewritersays.Thishasbeenknownasinteractivereading.ItispresentedbyDechant(1991)thatthereaderconstructsmeaningbytheselectiveuseofinformationfromallsourcesofmeaning(Phonemic,syntax,semantics)withoutadherencetoanyonesetorder.Thebrainreceivesvisualinformationandatthesametime,interpretsorreconstructsthemeaningofthetext.Thereforereadingisinvolvednotonlytheprintedwordsbutalsothereader’sknowledgeofthelanguageandoftheworldorofthetexttypes.Learnersareencouragedtodecordandunderstandwords,phasesandsentencesinthetext.Atthesametime,weuseexpectation,previousknowledgetounderstandthereadingtext.Backgroundknowledgethataidsintextcomprehensionhasrecentlybeenstudiedwiththehelpofschematheory,andtheresearchshowsthattheinteractivemodelcompensatesthelimitationspresentedbybottom-upmodelandtop-downmodel.
3.Factorsaffectingreading
3.1Vocabulary
Asthebasicelementoflanguage,vocabularyisthebackboneofthewholelanguagesystem.Oneofthereadingprocessesistodecodeandunderstandwords.Ifweknowtheprecisewordschosenbythewriter,mostofthetime,wecanunderstandwhathesaid.Ifwehavelargeramountofvocabulary,itwouldbeeasierforustounderstandatext.However,newwordsaffectthespeedaswellasthecomprehension.Therearesomemainpointsaboutvocabulary.Oneisthatthesamewordindifferentcontexthasdifferentmeanings.Besides,toenlargevocabulary,weshouldknowthewordbuildingsuchasstemsandaffixes.Whatismore,thewordscertainlyreflectthedifferenceofculture.Vocabularyisoneofthechieffactorsaffectingreading.Theabilitytodistinguishthemeaningofwordsindifferentcontextisoneofthemostimportantaspectsofsuccessfulreading.
3.2Culturalbackground
Phillips(1984)pointedout:
asuccessfulreadingofanypassagedependsonacombinationoflinguisticknowledgeandbackgroundknowledge.Itiscognitiveskillandgeneralexperienceandknowledgeoftheworld,whetheracquiredbyexperienceorbylearningthatinfluencegreatlythereadingcomprehensionprocess,becausethemorethereaderbringstothetext,themoreistakenaway.Indeed,inthereadingprocess,thelinguisticknowledge,likevocabulary,isveryimportant,butsometimeswecan’treadbetweenthelineswithoutthehelpofbackgroundknowledgeofculture,becausethemeaningofwordsareacquiredinacertaincircumstanceofculture.Forexample,eventhoughyouknoweverywordinonesentence,however,ifyoudon’tknowtheveryEnglishculture,suchashistories,customs,religions,youmayfailtounderstandtheexactmeaningofthetexts.Wecansaythatbackgroundknowledgeisasimportantasanyotherfactorsaffectingreading.
Lackingofthenecessaryculturalbackgroundmayhinderpeoplefromcomprehendinglanguage.Forinstance,whenthepresidentReagantookuphispost,anAmericantoldaChinese:
“TheUnitedStateshasgonefrompeanutstopopcorn.”Thestructureofthissentenceisverysimple.However,theChinesedidn’tunderstandthesentenceatthattimeuntilhisfriendexplainedtoherthatisaboutbackgroundknowledge.BecauseformerpresidentJimmyCarterownedabigpeanutfarmwhilethepresentpresidentReaganisanactorandpeopleeatpopcornwhiledtheywatchTV.ThepeanutstandsforMr.CarterandpopcornstandsforReagan.Onlyatthattimecanherealizetherealhumorous.Fromthiscase,wecanseethatnotonlyourvocabulary,butalsoour
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