Chapter One Introduction
1.1 Background of the Research
In colleges, there is a group of students whose majors are related to art, such as Performing Arts, Directing, Music, Décor Design, Animation Design, Theater Arts, and Directing etc. We call them art students. They usually don’t have much motivation to learn English reading. Reasons can be divided into two main aspects. On the one hand, many of them usually have far lower reading ability and are not interested in reading English. On the other hand, they are not required to pass CET 4 and their requirements for English also differ. In this case, even English teachers lose enthusiasm to teach art students reading, thus making reading teaching less efficient. There are still some other problems in current reading teaching. Most teachers still apply traditional teaching model which is ―teacher-centered‖. It can hardly arouse students’ interest and the learning efficiency in reading class is low. That is to say, even if students are hardworking, they will not learn a lot and may not enjoy English reading class. As mentioned above, the traditional way of teaching English, especially teaching reading is too boring for art students and this may discourage them from being fully involved in English reading class. Therefore, there is great need to improve the teaching method in reading class.
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1.2 Significance of the Research
With the rapid development of globalization, English is becoming more and more important. Nowadays, people get more and more information through websites, magazines or other types of publications in English all over the world. English reading comprehension has been becoming more and more crucial in current society. The objectives of teaching students English are to enable students to learn basic language knowledge and practice basic language skills. According to College English Curriculum Requirements, students’ overall ability to use English should be improved, among which, reading ability is the basis and should be emphasized. In college, for non-English majors, having English intensive reading class is the main way to train their reading ability. However, most teachers now still apply the traditional teaching methods in reading class, which is more mechanical and easily to make students feel bored. Now teaching reading in college is far from satisfaction. Since 1990s, research on multimodality has attracted a lot of scholars’ attentio，英语论文，英语论文题目 |
