浅析教师在高中英语阅读教学中的角色(1)(3)
2017-08-08 06:39
导读：This definition narrows the purpose of reading down to get meaning from text in written form. Every day we may read different kinds of things, such as telephone directories, labels on medicine bottles
This definition narrows the purpose of reading down to get meaning from text in written form. Every day we may read different kinds of things, such as telephone directories, labels on medicine bottles, street maps, timetables and statistics. Reading such materials is a process of scanning to find the information needed. In fact, no matter what we read, it is unlikely that we are interested in the pronunciation of what we read except in a tiny minority of cases.
We read because we want to get something from the writing: facts, ideas and enjoyment. Whatever it is, we want to get the message that the writer has expressed, and we are interested in what the writing means. As we know, the writer’s purpose of producing a text is to inform, and the reader’s role is to find out this purpose and get the text producer’s information. Hence this definition turns out to be the most important and suitable definition of reading for us. It indicates the fundamental reason for reading. It also indicates that the reader’s role in reading is active rather than passive.
1.2 Reading process
Reading is a problem-solving process. The problems to be solved in the process of reading as we find out are of four dimensions: lexical, syntactic, discourse and social-cultural. The solving of the problems is undertaken in the second reading and proceeded from the beginning of the text to the end. In this model, the reader need not use all of the textual clues.
According to schema theory, reading comprehension is an interactive process between the text and the readers’ prior background knowledge. Reading comprehension involves one’s knowledge of the world, which may be culturally based and culturally biased. Good readers bring their knowledge of the world and their experience with other books and their knowledge of the subject to the text. The text provides signals and clues to predict the content of the text. In this way, good readers are always one step ahead. They make guesses about what will follow, continue reading, and sometimes change their predictions. Then, if they see their expectations were not correct, they would make new predictions with the help of clues and signals, and in such a way they could understand the text better. Such a psycholinguistic reading process is referred to as the top-down reading process. In this process, the reader, being himself on the knowledge stored in his memory, predicts, samples, and confirms or corrects his hypotheses about the written text. Contrary to the top-down process is the bottom-up process, in which process reading involves the reader’s recognition of letters and words and the accumulation of individual sentence meanings. During the process of reading, both of the top-down model and the bottom-up model will be used.2. The position of senior English reading in China
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2.1 The importance of the instruction of English reading
Since the policy of opening to the outside world and china’s entry of WTO were put into effect in China, English as a tool of communication has been playing a more significant part in acquiring cultural, scientific and technical knowledge, for collecting worldwide information and carrying out international exchange and cooperation.
