How to improve English reading ability of university students.docVIP

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 44 How to improve English reading ability of university students [Abstract] The paper aims at how to improve college students `English reading abilities. Reading is a basic ability in learning English. Through investigations, the writer finds that there are some obstacles to hinder college students from improving their abilities in reading comprehension in the process of reading. First, the paper discusses the reasons for improving college students `reading abilities: one is that students read in different ways for different purposes and the other is that students read for meanings. Second, combining with the two reasons and psychological mechanisms and cognitive process in English reading, it analyzes the factors of hindering the improvement of college students `reading abilities, that is, teachers` teaching methods and students `characteristics. Then, according to these factors, it gives solutions to getting rid of obstacles in English reading, such as emphasizing on the cultural background knowledge, the influence of discourse and the acquisition of lexicon. Finally, it mentions that teachers should pay attention to the training of reading skills in English teaching to help college students to master reading skills and improve their reading abilities. [Key Words] college students; reading abilities; reading comprehension; obstacles Abstract This paper aims to improve college students in English reading ability. Reading is a basic ability to learn English. Through investigation, the author found that students in the course of reading, there are some obstacles that they improve their English reading ability barriers. To solve this problem, this paper first to talk about improving students reading ability of two reasons: on the one hand, students are used for different purposes in different ways to read; the other hand, students can read during reading is the meaning of the article; second, In combination with the two r