Teaching Strategies for Improving Students’ Reading Ability.docVIP

Teaching Strategies for Improving Students’ Reading Ability 　　Abstract：Reading is a very important part of English teaching， and it is a very important way of gaining information in foreign language learning. English reading can help students enlarge their vocabulary， learn grammar well and accumulate the social and cultural knowledge about the English nations. It is a major task to develop students’ reading skills and to improve their reading ability in English teaching. 　　Keywords： Reading；Teaching；Strategy 　　中图分类号：G632.0 文献标识码：A 文章编号：1992-7711（2016）05-0066 　　Reading is not just the ability to recognize words， but the reader also needs to make sense of what he/she reads. Articulating words and pronouncing them correctly cannot be called reading； it is merely decoding?Ctranslating written symbols into corresponding sounds. Reading is an active process during which the reader tries to understand the meaning of a given text. English reading has always been considered one of the most important parts of foreign language learning. Reading in English， as the most frequently used way for students to get access to original English material， plays a crucial role in students’ English study. It facilitates students’ expansion of lexical items， enhancement of grammar， accumulation of the knowledge about English speaking countries’ society and culture and therefore helps the development of the other three language skills. 　　Reading comprehension means extracting the required information from the text as efficiently as possible. There are mainly three types of models for reading. One is called a bottom-up model， and this model reflects the belief that reading comprehension is based on the understanding and mastery of all the new words， new phrases， and new structures as well as a lot of reading aloud practice. Also， this reading follows a linear process from the recognition of letters to words， to phrases， to sentences， to paragraphs， and then to the meaning of the whol