An Empirical Study Of ESA Teaching Model In English Reading Teaching In Senior High School

English as a foreign language or a second language,is of great significance in today’s world with the rapid development of globalization.And English reading has always been an indispensable part of English learning.In the actual senior high school English class,reading class is one of the important classes to promote students’ overall English ability.In the college entrance examination English paper,the score of reading item also occupies the main part of the score.Therefore,how to enhance students’ English reading comprehension ability has become a hot issue in senior high school English teaching.In the 1990,Britain’s famous English educationist Jeremy Harmer first came up with the ESA teaching model in his book How to teach English.“E” refers to engage,“S” refers to study and “A” refers to activate.This teaching model is widely used in the language teaching field because of its flexible and changeable class type and its student-centered theme.In order to explore whether the application of ESA teaching model in senior high school English reading teaching can have an effect on students’ reading learning.This study proposes to solve the following three problems:(1)What is the current situation of senior high school students’ English reading learning?(2)What impacts does the application of ESA teaching model inEnglish reading teaching have on senior high school students’ reading learning?(3)To what extent does the application of ESA teaching model in English reading teaching have an impact on senior high school students’ reading ability?This study uses Constructivism and Schema theory as the theoretical basis.The methods of literature research,questionnaire survey,comparative analysis research and experimental research were adopted as the research methods in this study.Students of Grade Two from two parallel classes in Guiyang No.9 Senior High School were selected as the research subjects.A 16-week teaching experiment was carried out,in which the experimental class adopted ESA teaching model while control class adopted traditional reading teaching method.In this study,the author adopted three research instruments: questionnaires;pretest and post test;SPSS.Before the experiment,the author gave two classes of students a questionnaire about senior high school students’ English reading learning and put two classes of students’ English entrance examination reading comprehension scores as their pretest scores.In the experiment,the author applies ESA teaching model to the experimental classes’ English reading teaching and applies the traditional reading teaching method to the control classes’ English reading teaching.After four months ofteaching experiments,the author has carried on the questionnaire survey again to two classes of students,the content of the pre and post questionnaires is the same.Then the author takes the English final examination reading comprehension scores of the two classes as their post-test scores.Through the data collection and analysis,the author found that,the current reading situation of senior high school students is not ideal,students’ interest and their participation in English reading class is not high,moreover students can hardly use the relevant reading strategies and skills in English reading,and they are doubtful about the current English reading classroom teaching and their English reading comprehension ability.The application of ESA teaching model in English reading teaching can improve students’ English reading learning interest and classroom participation to some extent,and can strengthen students’ understanding and using of related reading strategies.Moreover the application of ESA teaching model in senior high school reading teaching can bring positive influence to students’ reading ability and improve students’ reading comprehension scores.Although this study proves the effectiveness of ESA teaching model in senior high school English reading teaching.But because of the small sample size and short experimental time,there are still many deficiencies in the study,these deficiencies are expected to be further improved in future studies.