A Study Of Problems In Classroom Teaching Of Reading At Senior High School

For many years, reading plays a valuable part in English teaching and learning in senior high middle school. According to the English syllabus for senior high middle school, middle school English teaching should emphasize the importance of reading in English teaching. In accordance with the new curriculum standard: high school English teaching should make the students'basic knowledge stronger and develop their four basic language abilities of listening, speaking, reading and writing, laying emphasis on the training of their reading ability so that they can have a solid foundation for the further studies and for the use of English in the future ( Zhang Yufeng 2006). In addition, the college entrance examination also requires the promotion of students'reading ability with 40-45% out of the total marks of 150. Besides, with the development of our country and China's entry WTO, cultivating and improving students'reading ability and competence is a necessary program. However, due to the deep-seated traditional teaching and learning theories and methods, there are some serious problems existing in senior high middle school classroom teaching instruction which need to be improved and solved as soon as possible.In order to investigate the problems, this thesis is to research and analyze the situation and process of classroom reading instruction in Grade Two in senior high middle school. After finding out the possible problems in reading class, the author puts forwards some possible solutions to help both teachers and students improve the effect of reading teaching and learning. The thesis consists of six parts. Part one is an introduction, which gives a brief account of the background of the research concerning with the topic. Part two is the literature review which introduces some important theories focusing on the nature of reading, the teaching approaches of reading and an overview of studies in EFL reading. Part three is the core of the research. It introduces the research methodology, including participants, research approach, procedures of data collection and data analysis methods. Part four is about findings and discussions mainly focusing on the problems of classroom reading instruction, its respective reasons. Part five focused on the implications to the problems. The last part concludes the paper.