漳州师范学院(1) 讲学.ppt

A Talk on English and Chinese Reading Theory and Strategies DUANMU QINGYI Faculty of Foreign Languages College of International Exchange and Education Henan Normal University P. R. China 453007 Contents: Brief Introduction I. Why and how do people read? II. Strategies of reading III. Techniques of reading English IV. Comparative studies: Chinese reading V. Differences of the two languages Conclusion Introduction IRA: International Reading Association (Headquarters in the U.S.A., established in 1956) CRA: Chinese Reading Association (established in 1991) 中国学者认为： 口头为语(orality)，书面为文 (literacy); 语之目标: 交际→理解→做事 文之归宿: 阅读→诠释→创作 文字作品一旦完成，便成为独立于作者之外的客观实体，一个完整 的、封闭的自足体系。 I. Why and how do people read? Samples: 1. A manager is reading a contract to be signed with a foreign corporation in two days. 2. A house-wife lying in bed turns over the pages of the magazine Readers’ Digest. 3. A college student in a library gazes intently at a textbook, occasionally making notes. Purposes of Reading: In sample one: Reading for survival In sample two: Reading for pleasure In sample three: Reading for knowledge/ for learning/ for information Development of Reading Process 1. Bottom-up reading model（自下而上模式）： 又称： text-based reading process 基于文本的阅读 data-driven reading process 信息驱动阅读 Reading process (“特殊到一般”阅读过程): A. letters are transformed into phonemic representations Letter ↓ B. phonemic representations are then transformed into word representation Words ↓ C. words are next assigned meaning P