Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Research Background
Reading is a skill to absorb language materials, add language knowledge and enlarge vocabulary; it is also an important way of gaining the language input for the language learners. For the students who learn English as a second/foreign language, reading is a basic skill (Anderson, 2017). For most students, reading ability is themost important skill that they need to master in order to succeed in learning English.Wen Qiufang (2017) said that reading was regarded as the first goal to reach amongthe four skills in middle school English teaching. The task of the New NationalEnglish Curriculum Standards for High School is to cultivate the students’ interest andenhance their confidence in learning English, help them form good ability of learning.Teachers should teach students effective learning strategies, help them becomecooperative and independent learners, and make students able to grasp basicknowledge and skills of English language in listening, speaking, reading and writingso as to develop their sufficient competence in using the English language (HaoHuizhen and Pan Bingxin, 2017). According to the Curriculum Standards, the purposeof teaching English reading is to train students and make them read more efficientlyand form appropriate habit and strong interest in reading.For senior high school students, reading is the basic skill that the students shouldmaster in order to develop the other three skills effectively. Professor Hu Chundong---the prominent expert of English teaching: “Chinese should emphasize thedevelopment of reading ability, if we want to learn English. If not, we cannot learnEnglish completely.” Chen Jingbo (2017): “One doesn’t know how to learn English ifhe/she doesn’t know how to read. Reading is the priority if one wants to learnlistening, writing and expression in the right way.”
阅读是一种技能，吸收语言材料，增加语言知识，扩大词汇量，它也是一个重要的方式获得的语言学习者的语言输入。关于学生，谁学习英语作为第二语言/外语，阅读是一个基本的技能（安德森，2017年）。关于大多数学生，阅读能力是最重要的，他们需要掌握的技能，为了成功学习英语。文秋芳（2017）表示，阅读被视为在中学英语教学中的第一个目标，英语论文题目，达到企业几年的四个技能。新的国家英语课程标准高中的任务是培养学生的学习兴趣，提高他们学习英语的信心，帮助他们形成良好的学习能力。教师应该教给学生有效的学习策略，帮助他们成为合作和独立的学习者，使学生能掌握基础知识和技能的英语听，说，英语论文，读，写，从而发展他们的足够的能力使用英语（HaoHuizhen潘冰心，2017年）。根据课程标准，英语阅读教学的目的是培养学生，使他们更有效地阅读，并形成相应的习惯和较强的阅读兴趣。关于高中学生，阅读是学生应掌握的基本技能，以有效开发其他三个技能。胡教授闵行区春东路---著名英语教学专家：“中国应该强调阅读能力的发展，如果我们想学习英语。如果没有，我们不能学习英语完全。“陈静波（2017）：”人们不知道怎样才能学好英语的家政学联合会/她不知道如何读。阅读是当务之急，如果一个人想学习听力，写作，以正确的方式表达。“
But in the real English classroom, there are some problems in teaching reading.Firstly, many English teachers may not be aware of the importance of cultivatingstudents reading strategies or techniques in the process of teaching reading while they only teach students the language itself. Secondly, students may not be aware ofreading strategies and applying reading strategies in their reading process. Manyteachers maybe don’t know enough knowledge about reading strategies so that theyignore how to strengthen students' ability of applying English and perform readingstrategies training in their classrooms. Especially, they ignore to develop the students’ability of analyzing discourse and mastering reading skills. So they make theirstudents spend a lot of time and energy in doing many reading comprehensions, butthe students can not get satisfactory result. And this is far different from the aim of“cultivate strong ability of reading” in the New Curriculum Standards. The aim ofEnglish reading of high sc
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