浅析教师在高中英语阅读教学中的角色(1)(2)
2017-08-08 06:39
导读：Language input is vital to foreign language teaching. However, English teaching in middle schools in China lacks natural environment for language using. As language input through listening is not exte
Language input is vital to foreign language teaching. However, English teaching in middle schools in China lacks natural environment for language using. As language input through listening is not extensive. Language input dependents more on classroom teaching and students’ wide and effective reading, great attentions is therefore paid to reading teaching. A serious problem of middle school English teaching is its low efficiency. Problem may exist in the English reading teaching of middle school, and the traditional reading teaching may cause the problems. As a result, the traditional approach produced unsatisfactory teaching results. The students might have learned how to analyze sentence structures and how to translate, but they remain at a loss in actual language use. So the old teaching mode should be changed.
Teachers play an important role in English reading teaching. If we want to improve the effect of English teaching, the teachers should not only understand the concept of effective teaching and learning, but also know how to play their guiding role in reading teaching. Generally, the guidance should be given during three stages: the guidance before reading; guidance while reading under way; guidance after reading has been completed. It is important that teachers provide something to help students form motivation. There is no doubt that teaching reading skills can help students increase their reading abilities. Therefore, the basic reading skills are listed in this paper.
1.1 The definitions of reading
Not like some very basic factors in linguistics or pedagogy which usually have clear concepts or definitions, reading, a common linguistic phenomenon existing in most languages, has not yet got a very authoritative definition.
What do we mean when we refer to “reading”? Although the question seems to be simple, there isn’t a complete agreement on its answer. Different people use the term reading in different ways, and much confusion can arise from consequent misunderstanding.
大学排名 At the first step, let’s see some simple definitions of reading conceived in the minds of different people:
(i) Reading means pronouncing words for some teachers and students alike.
It is a definition of reading for the early reading stage. In a great many classrooms the reading lesson is used as an opportunity to teach pronunciation, to encourage fluent and expressive speaking and so on. For early readers reading aloud is of course an important aid. But the early stage does not last long. Once we have passed the early reading stage, reading aloud is not common outside the classroom. Most of our reading is done silently, unless there are some special circumstances.
(ii) For some teachers, the teaching of reading is nothing more than help students to learn hard words.
It seems to imply that unless we can correctly recognize the words we meet in print; we cannot even begin to read. Similarly, the process of identifying written words is mainly the concern on the teacher of early reading.
(iii) “Reading is a psychological process of acquiring information from the written or printed materials. It involves, not only the surface meaning the understanding of what one reads, not only the surface meaning of words and sentences, but also the implied meaning and the relationships between sentences in the context. In this process, basic skills are needed.” [2]
