A Study On Misunderstanding Factors In English Reading Of Senior One Students

Reading is an essential and important part in English learning. In senior high school, it is one of the major tasks in English teaching to help students develop effective reading strategies to deal with various reading problems. This thesis is to research and analyze the misunderstanding phenomena in English reading, and put forward relevant strategies. Through analyzing the factors which cause the students'misunderstandings in reading from the cognitive theory perspective, the author trys to find some valid reading strategies to help students reduce the misunderstandings in English reading comprehension.Five chapters are included in the thesis paper:Chapter one gives a brief introduction on the research background, research purpose and research significance. Chapter two aims to provide literature review. It introduces some cognitive theories, the relevant reading strategies and the former researches on misunderstanding. Chapter three focuses on the reseach design. The reseach presents two research questions:(1) What main factors cause the English reading misunderstanding in senior one students in a common senior high school? (2) What reading strategies can be used to help these students solve the misunderstanding problems in English reading? The experiment consists of four parts:a questionnaire, an interview, the training of reading strategies and tests. The subjects are senior one students from a common senior high school in the suburb of Beijing. They are from three classes. The author uses the questionnaire to investigate what factors cause students'misunderstanding in reading, uses the interview to get information on what reading strategies are effective to reduce students' misunderstanding in reading and uses reading comprehension tests to prove whether the reading strategies have effect on reducing students misunderstanding in reading. Chapter four are data collection and analysis. The author compares the data of the experimental Class One to the data of the control Class Two and the comparison Class Four. Then the author analyzes the experiment result. Chapter five intends to draw a conclusion from the experiment. The author illustrates her major findings and suggestions on reducing and avoiding misunderstanding in reading, and the limitations of the study are also mentioned here.