On Developing College Students’ Ability of Reading Comprehension

Reading has become one of the four essential skills in English study,without reading,it is difficult for the students to support independent and self-directed learning.With the arrival of the Information Age,our reading materials gradually change from paper materials to electronic ones.So it becomes more and more important for college students to speed up their reading and develop a good reading habit in order to acquire as much information as possible.     

Teaching Critical Reading in Chinese EFL Classrooms

This paper aims at proposing some instructional suggestions for incorporating critical reading strategy into Chinese EFL class rooms. It analyzes the current situation of college English reading instruction and points out the possibilities and significance of teaching crit ical reading to L2 learners. It attempts to raise both English language teachers’and students’awareness in using critical reading strategy and to provide them with some feasible suggestions for applying this strategy into the real classroom practice.     

如何翻译关于读书的名词(一)

与读书相关的名词包括:精神食粮spiritual food,nourishment for the mind陶冶情操to refine one’s sentiment开卷有益Reading is always beneficial．培养习惯to foster a habit Reading is always profitable．以读书为乐趣to take up reading as a hobby Reading enriches the mind．专心致志读书to read with concentration修养self-cultivation学以致用to learn so as to make use of it完善人格to perfect one’s character理论联系实践to integrate theory with practice提升思想to elevate one’s mind翻译下列短文:读书的意义书籍是人类的精神食粮。读书不仅是一个人修养的标志,还是人们塑造自我、完善人格、提升思想和获得智慧的重要途径。书籍承载、记录、积累和传播人类的知识。读书对一个人的成长起着重大作用。一本好     

EFL EXTENSIVE READING AT COLLEGE LEVEl

To a student of English, reading is one of the four basic skills. And his ultimate goal in reading English is to be able grasp idea as quickly and eaily as he would if he were reading his native language. Yet in early stages of language acquisition, the first inclination in reading of most English students is to translate. Translation is a slow, laborious process. The writer＇s train of thoughts may become lost, as well as the enjoyment of reading. Moreover, translation is an art in itself and not a practical procedure for everyday reading. The student should attempt to develop a feeling for the target language so that he is really reading, not deciphering word for word.     

Some tips for Selecting Suitable Materials in Developing Ss’ Listening Ability in Middle School

Nowadays,many English teachers in middle school,not knowing that listening and reading can not be handled at the same time, would ask students to listen to a passage while doing reading comprehension.They are trying to kill two birds with one stone and only to find they catch neither.Actually what is suitable for reading     

Preliminary Exploration on English Reading Strategy of Senior Middle School

Reading for most people is the main means to gain knowledge and the importance of it has already been widely accepted.Also,it has been regarded as the most necessary foreign language skill in most countries’ teaching syllabus of colleges and middle schools,which requires the learners to master it badly.So how to explore teaching theory of foreign language reading has become an important task for study of foreign language teaching methods.In this study,some reading theories and reading strategies provided can be helpful to developing senior middle school students’ linguistic ability and improving their reading efficiency.     

The Teacher‘s Role in College English Reading Class

This paper analyses the reasons that led to the failure of traditional intensive readingclass and suggests three changes in the teacher＇s role in college English reading class.They are:First,to stimulate students＇enthusiasm for reading independently.Second,to ac-tivate the students＇prior knowledge of content to compensate for gaps both in linguisticknowledge and in the culturally based differences when processing written texts. Third,totake an active role in the development of foreign language reading skills     

Microscopic Discourse Analysis in Senior English Reading Teaching

Microscopic discourse analysis is an important means for English reading,especially for senior middle school students.The new curriculum reformation requires the senior students have strong comprehensive ability in reading materials.How to get the goal in a short time? The question need teacher think in the reading teaching.Microscopic discourse analysis will not only im prove the students’comprehensive ability in reading,but also improve their communicative ability in real situation.It can be used in English reading teaching.This paper will discuss why the reading teaching should consider the microscopic discourse anal ysis,how to apply it in English reading teaching.     

Metacognitive Strategy Use in English Reading Comprehension

Metacogonitive strategies are in connection with the reading process. It is essential for language learners to master a series of metacogonitive strategies. Teachers should conduct metacognitive training among students. Thus, students are sure to improve their reading proficiency with some metacognitive knowledge during the reading process.     

An Experimental Method to Read Novels Without Literary Criticism

Though novel reading is a common experience to everybody,little has been researched to help average readers to understand a novel.In practice,there are two ways for them to understand a novel:one is to use literary criticism theories and the other is to refer to professional critics’criticism directly.However,the trouble is that the two methods are either time-consuming or far from convincing.In this paper,an experimental reading method is discussed to help average readers enhance reading experience.It aims at reaching the goal of reading without criticism,which,through making clear the aim of reading,putting main focus on the story only,will help readers to have a better understanding of reading.     

Focus on a New Approach in College Reading Instruction-Collaborative Strategic Reading(CSR)

As an attempt to seek more reliable and valid methodology to enhance traditional college reading classes in China,the paper aims to explore an instructional approach named Collaborative Strategic Reading(CSR) based on the analysis of current college reading instructions,the suitability of CSR applied in authentic teaching context as well as pedagogical recommendations attempted to present practicable concept for college reading instructions.     

Newspaper Reading and English Teaching

Reading is not only the most effective way to get the knowledge of the language but also the only way to improve the language skills of English learners.However,the vast majority of students’reading ability are far apart from the curriculum standards in reality.Reading English newspaper helps to mobilize the enthusiasm of students’reading,and improve their reading ability.It forms a bridge between learning and real life.It extends the English reading from the teaching materials and guides students to a lot of extracurricular reading,creating a new reading space for students.     

EFFICIENT READING

<正> Have you been reading English course at the same rate as you would read read anovel or a page of a daily paper?If so,you have been reading it far too quickly. There are many types of reading,each with its own purpose,each suited to a partic-ular occasion.The skilled reader is one who varies his reading speed and method to suitboth the material he is reading and his reason for reading it.     

Three-stages Reading Instruction that Develops Efficient Readers

This dissertation intends to show a theoretical framework and a practical teaching plan of how a three-stage reading instruction works for developing efficient readers in middle school reading classroom.     

The Importance of Cultural Understanding in English Study

Reading is a crucial tool in acquiring information and knowledge.Culture cannot be separated from language.College English reading should focus on the differences of culture.It is important to understand how to lay stress on the differences in the course of college English teaching and learning about reading for increasing students’ ability of reading.This thesis analyzes the influence of culture on English reading and tries to set up a principle of teaching English through culture.This thesis centers on cultural differences between China and Western countries and how to deal with that relationship in the English reading.     

Cohesion Theory and Its Implications for English Reading Teaching

Abstrct: According to College English Curriculum Requirements(2007), reading is the main training aim of our college English teaching. And for the college graduates, reading is the main way through which they obtain information needed in their specialty.Most often, students think their problem in reading is vocabulary, which is not necessarily true. Sometimes even the readers look up all the new words, it is still hard for them to understand the text exactly and thoroughly. Though vocabulary plays an important role in reading comprehension, it may not be the biggest hindrance on our way of correct comprehending. English reading teaching shouldn’t be confined to the teaching of vocabulary or sentences but should develop students’ ability to analyze text beyond sentence level. It’s impossible to cover all the aspects of discourse analysis in one article and since cohesion is important and basic knowledge of discourse analysis, we will concentrate on the cohesive functions of discourse in English reading in this article.     

ASR technology for children with dyslexia： Enabling immediate intervention to support reading in Bahasa Melayu

Reading is an essential skill towards literacy development, and should be provided so that children can master the skill at their early ages. For dyslexic children, mastering the skill is a challenge. It has been widely agreed that the theory behind such difficulties in reading for dyslexic lies in the phonological-core deficits. Support has been given in many ways to dyslexic children to teach them reading through using various multi-sensory methods and using computer-based applications that include animated characters and text-to-speech （TTS） technology. In such applications, although stimulating, it requires the children to call for help by clicking on the custom-made buttons on the computer screen, often, such an application requires the dyslexic children to be aware of their mistakes and be able to judge when help is needed. They are just reluctant to ask the computer for help. Hence, such technology does not provide immediate intervention to correct any reading failure. It is therefore worth to look at the promising automatic speech recognition （ASR） technology to provide such intervention. Hence, this paper gives an overview of the use of ASR to facilitate immediate reading intervention which is the key element of remediating reading among dyslexic children. For such intervention to work, data on reading mistakes and patterns are observed and collected in audio format. The data serve as training and testing samples for an ASR to train on. An observation was carried out in two public schools participated in the study to record dyslexic children＇s reading in Bahasa Melayu （BM） and observe error patterns and their behaviors toward reading. A total of 10 dyslexic children are involved and a total of 6384 utterances from a set of selected words have been gathered and analyzed. Data are grouped into error type categories and the analysis performed gives ＂vowel substitution＂ as the most frequent error made （20%）. The significant findings can be of interest of special education teachers or parents to devise and use suitable approach to correct reading mistakes often made by dyslexic children. The findings also contribute to the development of a suitable and well-tuned ASR model focusing on dyslexic children reading aloud in BM.     

The Effect of Cooperative Learning in Teaching EFL Reading for Chinese Non-English Majors

In order to examine the effect of cooperative learning in teaching reading for Chinese non-English majors,an experiment was done on cooperative learning in reading course.After a four-month experiment,a conclusion was drawn that there really existed significant difference in the English reading proficiency between students who received cooperative learning instruction and those who adopted non-cooperative learning instruction.This paper concludes that according to the statistics,cooperative learning is an efficient way to improve students’ reading proficiency.     

Integration of Critical Reading Pedagogy and English Teaching

Teaching English reading lessons is not an easy task if students are not motivated. To encounter the problem, critical reading pedagogy are discussed for the benefits of teachers and students. Critical reading pedagogy, as it is discussed, will improve the teaching of English reading to some extent.