浅析教师在高中英语阅读教学中的角色(1)(4)
2017-08-08 06:39
导读：English is learned as a basic and compulsory subject in senior schools for various purposes. For example, some high-school students are expected to be well equipped for their further studies at colleg
English is learned as a basic and compulsory subject in senior schools for various purposes. For example, some high-school students are expected to be well equipped for their further studies at colleges and universities, where English is taken either as a compulsory course or as a major course; other high-school students are supposed to master the basic skills of communication, necessary for employment. Employers have started to set certain requirements in foreign language communication abilities for the personnel they recruit. Thus, the instruction of English as a foreign language at high-school level undertakes a task of quality-oriented education.
For students in China, reading is paramount. English learned as a foreign language (EFT) and face-to-face communication with native speakers of English is still largely confined. This is not just because English is learned primarily as a means of gaining information through the written language, but also because reading provides the most efficient and the most important channel of linguistic competence. For many students, reading is by far the most important of the four skills in a second language, particularly in English as a second or foreign language.
Reading is useful for other purposes too: any exposure to English (if students understand it more or less) is a good thing for language study. At the least, some of the language sticks in their minds as part of the process of language acquisition. If the reading text is especially interesting and engaging, students can obtain knowledge even more successfully.
“Besides, reading texts provides opportunities to study a language: vocabulary, grammar, and the way we construct sentences, paragraphs and texts. Reading texts also provide good models for English writing”. [3] To teach the skill of writing, teachers will need to show students models if what they are encouraging topics, stimulate discussion, excite imaginative responses and be the springboard for interesting lessons.
What’s more, in the college entrance examination, close, reading comprehension, multiple choice and mistakes correction require that reading be emphasized. The students can finish the test only after understanding the sentences and paragraphs. Reading comprehension in the examination covers 45%. Therefore, reading is of special value for the students who are eager to pass the entrance examination.
本文来自中国科教评价网 Therefore, reading has been a much-emphasized course in meddle school learning and teaching in China. It refers to reading with quality in order to gain a high degree of comprehension and has come to be recognized as a highly complex cognitive process. It requires complex psychological processes of strategic speech, organization for remembering, use of natural units in problem solving, the discovery of rules and order, and the economical use of them.
2.2 Main characteristics of senior English for China (SEC)
One of the main characteristics of the currently used textbook SEC is thus: trying to improve the four skills, i.e. listening, speaking, reading and writing competence, and put more emphasis on reading. It is clearly stated in the syllabus for SEC as thus:
