An Investigation Into Troubles With The Classroom Instruction Of English Reading At Senior High Schools

For a long time, reading has played an important role in English teaching and learning in middle schools. 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. In addition, the college entrance examination also requires the promotion of students'reading ability with 40-45 marks out of the total marks of 150. Besides, with the development of our country and China's entry into WTO, cultivating and improving students'reading ability and competence is a necessary program. However, due to the deep-seated traditional 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.I have studied lots of works written by some experts at home and abroad, which are about classroom reading instruction and English theories, and from them I have got some knowledge about how to give classroom reading instruction. What's more, with the help of my supervisor, my colleagues and my friends I have done some research about classroom reading, thus having found some problems and solutions.What is more important, nearly twenty years of teaching experience and the thought about classroom reading instruction have caused me to manage to try different methods to improve my classroom reading and make great progress in my teaching. 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 makes some possible solutions to help both teachers and students improve the effect of reading teaching and learning. The thesis consists of five 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 ofreading, the teaching approaches of reading and an overview of studies in EFL reading. Part Three is the core of the research,which 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 and the possible solutions to the problems and the implications. The last part concludes the paper.