An Empirical Study On The Influence Of Multimodal Teaching On Senior High School Students’ English Reading Competence

The main characteristic of multimodal teaching is that teachers use a variety of modal resources to assist classroom teaching and improve the efficiency of English reading teaching by stimulating students’multi-sensory experience.Based on multimodal teaching theory,the author conducts an empirical study of English reading in a senior high school in Nanping.Fujian Province.This study aims to explore the impact of multimodal teaching mode on senior high school students’English reading competence.This paper mainly studies the following three issuesFirst,what difficulties do high school students often encounter in English reading?Will these difficulties reduce students’ interest in reading?Second,can multimodal teaching mode improve students’interest in English reading?Third.does multimodal teaching mode have any effect on English reading performance?If so,are there any differences iin different subjects?The author chooses two parallel classes in the first grade of a high school in Nanping.Fujian Province to carry out the teaching experiment.Two classes adopt different teaching modes,multimodal reading teaching mode in the experimental class and traditional reading teaching mode in the control class respectively.Pre-test and post-test are carried out before and after the teaching experiment.SPSS 13.0 is adopted to do the data analysis.Research Findings includeFirst,reading difficulties that high school students encounter in English reading can frustrate students and reduce their interest in reading.Second,multimodal teaching mode can improve students’interest in English reading.and to a certain extent alleviate the low interest caused by reading difficulties.Third,multimodal teaching mode can improve students’English reading performance,and it varies from subject to subjectThis study examines the validity of multimodal reading teaching through empirical research and explores the multimodal teaching classroom model,hoping to provide references for English reading teaching in senior high school.