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How to Improve the Reading Ability of the Beginners Lan Xiaoping （Huoqiao School Yangzhou 225104） Abstract:This paper deals with how to improve the reading ability of the beginners.The information age and the knowledge age amplify the demand for English.Reading is becoming more and more important in English teaching.Developing the reading ability of the students needs to obey the following principles: main-body principle,ordering principle and pleasure principle.It also needs to pay attention to some methods such as enlarging the quantity of reading,increasing the quantity of the words,developing good reading habits,train reading as an effective activity and initiative reading.Data were collected through questionnaires, which shows that the students made a great progress by improving their reading ability.However, the program seems to be powerless to a certain number students. Further research is needed to do for the beginners. Key words:beginners;reading ability;principles;methods;questionnaire 【中图分类号】 G623.31【文献标识码】 A 【文章编号】 1009—9646(2008)08-0000-00 1 Introduction I am now teaching junior students. It is necessary to investigate why the students were showing less and less interest.I found that to those poor students cannot understand the passage well. And it is this mechanical practice, in which the students were asked to read and re-read,write and re-write the new words and expressions that deprived the students of their interest. Quite a number of students say that they are afraid of being criticized and thus withdraw themselves from classroom activities. Considering the characteristics of my students, I found that developing their reading ability is more and more important.Its purpose is to enlarge their vocabulary and familiarize themselves with background information about English and to cultivate students careful observation and their logic thinking.What is more,it is to improve the students comprehension. If they can do well in reading,they will feel i