On The Application Of Constructivist Learning Theory In The English Reading Teaching In Senior Middle Schools

China joined the WTO successfully and succeeded in bidding for the 2008 Olympic Games . Today, as reform and opening-up continues constantly, the foreign language, together with the social life and globalization of economic activity, has already turned out to be one of the mayor factors of the citizens of our country. To study and grasp foreign languages, especially English, has significant meanings. It is of importance to study and grasp reading English.During a long period, a problem exists in the both aspects of teaching and learning in ordinary senior middle schools, which is greatly influenced by conventional education. On one hand, the reading teaching notion of most teachers are outmoded for the reading teaching idea lags behind and the reading teaching method is single. In a word, the situation is the fact that teaching loses contact with reality of society; On the other hand, the initiative and the main function of learning are not fully aroused, which is a type of learning without any activity. It is reflected as follows : firstly, teaching is planned uniformly so it is difficult to reflect students' differences . In the traditional reading teaching classroom, the teacher usually ignores students' individual difference with adopting the same tactic, regarding the students with different ability levels as the ones of the identical level. Consequently, students with high marks think the learning of courses too easy while other students with lower results cannot catch up. Teaching is difficult to reach the anticipated result naturally. Secondly, it is difficult for teachers to have equal dialogues with students. The way that the teachers take in English reading teaching in traditional senior middle schools is the explanation to words and sentences one by one. So students accept knowledge passively and their minds are in the state of suppressing, entity is not given play to. Teachers are ruling the classrooms so it is very difficult to take equal dialogues with students. Thirdly, there are less mutual activities among students , it is not easy to learn from others' strong points to offset one's weaknesses. With the traditional teaching method, there is no cooperation and communication among students, the true exchange and chances of initiative study. They are confined in the range of one's own limited knowledge and have lost the opportunity of development.Because of the questions above, this thesis , taking Constructivist Learning Theory as a basis, endeavors to recommend cooperation study such teaching methods as teaching talking and cognitive laws of master and apprentice, etc. It happens between teachers and students, students and students. There are students' exchange, solving the problem, discussing the cooperating, emphasizing on the learners' initiative and buildingconstructing in the course of studying. It advocates changing the teaching situation without actual conditions. We need to support the English reading teaching in senior middle schools with the theory and apply to real teaching.This article consists of six parts :(I ) Explaining the purpose and meaning of the English reading.(II) Explaining the basic thoughts of Constructivist Theory.(III) Constructivist Learning Theory and teaching.(IV) The application of Constructivist Learning Theory in the English reading teaching in senior middle schools.(V) Teaching experiment(VI) Experimental conclusion...