A Tentative Study On Time-limited Reading In Senior Three English Teaching

English reading is of vital importance to English learners. Therefore to improve students' reading ability is one of the important goals of secondary English teaching. Reading ability consists of reading speed and the accuracy of reading comprehension. This study has discovered that some teachers and students pay little attention to reading speed even during Senior Three. Many students have not reached standard reading speed. The reason is not only because of their low reading ability, but also because of the poor time concept and the lack of time management. Under the guidance of related reading theories and for the purpose of improving students'reading speed and reading accuracy, the author conducts a reading training, both in class and outside the class.The study selects two classes of The East Campus of Fuyang Nol. Senior High School in Anhui Province as the experimental objects. The author tries time-limited reading strategy in the experimental class to enforce the concept of time so as to improve students'reading ability. The author introduces reading strategies first, corrects students' improper reading habits, and encourages some cooperative reading activities after class.In order to check the results of the experiment, the author makes a questionnaire to investigate students'reading status. The questionnaire involves interest in reading, reading strategies, reading habits and reading speed. According to the feedback, teaching will be improved in the next phase. The Preliminary survey indicates that time-limited reading strategy helps students in the experimental class improve their reading ability, so the author continues the eight-month-training. Before and after the experiment, students in the experimental class and comparative class are to participate in the reading test. The data of the test and the results of the experiment will be further analyzed.The results show that:the series of reading methods and strategies directed at improving students'reading speed can promote the development of students'reading ability. Time-limited reading strategy in the experimental class has not only improved their reading speed and reading comprehension, but also stimulated students' interest in reading, expanded their knowledge and cultivated good reading habits. All in all, time-limited reading is a teaching method worth trying.