元认知策略在高中生英语阅读理解中应用情况的调查分析-an investigation and analysis of the application of metacognitive strategies in senior high school students english reading comprehension.docxVIP

AbstractAs we all know, reading is one of the four basic skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing) and plays a very important role among them, especially in the teaching and learning of senior high school students. Reading is not only one important channel to gain knowledge and information, but is the major way to learn English as well. However, there is no native language environment in China, so how to effectively improve learners’ English reading abilities and proficiency has always been emphasized by a large number of English researchers and teaching practitioners. In the past thirty years, there have many researches on the nature and methods of English reading, which all greatly influence English teaching and learning. Since Flavell first put forward the term metacognition, there has been a new perspective to study English reading. Gradually, teachers have begun to realize that it is the most important to teach students how to do reading comprehension by themselves, especially for the senior high school students. At present, most key senior high schools have large classes and students vary in English proficiency. Also, students get low marks in the reading comprehension part in their English exams. Therefore, teachers need to consider how to foster students’ ability to read independently and help them become autonomous learners.In light of the relationship between metacognitive strategies and English reading comprehension, the thesis aims to investigate the overall situation of senior high school students’ metacognitive strategies use in their English reading comprehensionand whether students with high English reading comprehension performances use metacognitive strategies more often. The author chose 206 second-year students fromDengta No.1 Senior High School as subjects，eighty percent of whom are from ruralareas. By means of questionnaire, reading comprehension test and interview, the author made a survey about the overall situation of senior high sch