英语阅读情况调.pptVIP

英语阅读情况调查 第一组 娄辛悦 徐宏亮 胡玉伟 王丽娟 Research Topic 阅读策略使用与英语阅读成绩的相关性研究 Research Instruments 1. A reading comprehension test 2. A questionnaire Questionnaire Sources of the theoretical framework 1. Insights from Andrew Cohen’s SBI materials 2. Insights from Prof Wen’s lectures and books 3. Insights from reflections of our own teaching experience Variable Strategy for English Reading Types of respondents Sophomore non-English majors Conceptual definition Strategies: Actions taken to facilitate the accomplishment of language learning tasks (Rubin’s definition) Operational definition English reading strategies: Actions taken to facilitate the accomplishment of English reading. Sentence-focused strategies Form-focused Analyzing the sentence structures Meaning-focused Ignoring the sentence structure Discourse-based strategies Predicting Getting main ideas Getting the deeper meanings I. Word attack strategies 1. I turn to dictionaries when coming across new words in the English reading. 2. I guess the meanings of new words in context when reading in English. 3. When I read English articles, I skip the words that are new to me. 4. I guess the meaning of new words by analyzing their roots or prefixes or suffixes. 5. I use simple words to replace difficult ones in sentence understanding. II. Sentence-focused strategies 6. I pause and analyze the structure of sentences when reading in English. 7. I do not bother with the grammatical structure of sentences while reading in English. 8. I ignore the sentences with complicated structures. 9. I try to grasp the general idea of a sentence before going to read the next sentence. 10. I try to understand complicated sentences by analyzing their structure. III. Discourse-based strategies 11. I predict the main idea of the whole passage from its title or subtitles. 12. I predict the main idea of the whole passage from key words. 13. I grasp the main idea of the material while reading English. 14. I try to gu