| Reading course is very important in college English teaching. When students graduate from university, they often have more chances to read English than to speak English. So reading is considered a means to obtain whatever information they need in their fields. Today, English is so widely used, and thus English teachers should employ effective teaching in their reading lessons to improve students' reading ability.In recent years, many researchers have developed various and abundant theories and methods on reading. On the one hand, reading methodology arisen from 19th century has been spreading and improving. On the other hand, the latest research productions continuously come out and develop. The research on reading theory have gone through a process from the period of attaching importance to linguistic factors to the period of attaching importance to non-linguistic factors, then to the period of attaching importance both to linguistic factors and non-linguistic factors. So the process of people's acknowledgement on linguistic factors is so complicated.As well as listening, speaking and writing, reading is the skill of applying language into communication. Without the knowledge of language, people cannot use language. The rules and regularities of a language are the basis of learning this language. If people want to master the knowledge of a language, they must master its grammar. Because grammar is one of the important elements in language and it is also the sum of the rules of the structural system of a language. In recent years, in China, people's attitudes towards grammar are different. Some people think that grammar has little effect on students' ability to use language. Therefore, they ignore or give up grammar and grammar teaching. Some English teachers even believe that students do not need grammar knowledge when they are reading. In this thesis, the author re-recognizes the place of grammar and grammar teaching and put forward the view that grammar plays an important role in reading. The first part of the thesisintroduces the nature of reading, reading process and reading strategies. The author depicts the reading process according to Grellet's idea: study of the layout→making hypotheses + anticipation of where to look for confirmation→skimming→ confirmation or revision →further prediction→second reading. In the reading process, effective readers can use more reading strategies to gain their reading purposes. Teachers also should encourage readers to make best use of those strategies. Some factors may influence readers' reading ability, for example, the selections of reading materials, the reading purposes, the reader factors, the different reading skills. Then a view is stated that the relationship really exists between reading and grammar.The third part of the thesis states the definition and the concept of grammar. Grammar is defined as "the way words are put together to make sentences"; Grammar is the structural system of a language; Grammar is used to convey meaning with the patterns and the regularities. Then the thesis traces back the history of grammar. The previous teaching methods are also introduced. For example, Grammar-Translation Method is used in traditional teaching class. It focuses on grammatical rules as the basis for translating from the second language to the native language or from the native language to the second language. So in the class, teachers interpret the grammar rules and also explain the grammar points. They will translate the passage sentence by sentence, hi then-minds, they believe that it is important for students to master the vocabulary and grammar rules of foreign language, because students can apply them into translation. Grammar once played an important role in previous language teaching and it is still important in modem language teaching. In a word, grammar cannot be replaced in language teaching class, hi order to confirm this view, the author takes different grammatical connectors for example to analyze in the fourth part. Those gramm...
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