Task-based Teaching In English Reading Classes For Senior High School Students

It is strongly advocated that the Task-Oriented Teaching Model for English Language is based on 20 years' foreign language teaching practice in the "New Standards for Middle School English Curriculums". This Model proposes learning through experiencing, practicing, participating, communicating and cooperating by training the students , overall abilities of using the language in learning process , and finally realizes the goals of tasks . It emphasizes "learning by doing, in which students are engaged in naturalistic leaning through participating in communicative activities and accomplishing language leaning tasks together with their teachers. Reading is a main way for people to acquire information, study and entertain. What is more, It accounts for a relatively greater part in all kinds of language tests. Whether you do well in reading has become one of the standards to test the language level of learners, GET, TOEFL, PET, for example. The author finds out that reading is still the weak link of students in English studying on the basis of many years' experience of teaching. However , traditional reading classes are often boring , is the problem that how we should arouse students ' internal demand , create an excellent teaching situation to develop the language and thinking ability along with the character of main body effectively with the reading ability developed at the same time has been discussing . The research has applied the concept of Task -based Language Teaching to the English teaching of reading and come up with the general thinking of designing as well as detailed improved measures of Task-based Language Teaching by analyzing the definition , application of the theory of Task -based Language Teaching.The thesis is an attempt to study TBLT in a reading class in Chinese senor high schools by beginning with the introduction to the theories of reading and task-based language teaching. The thesis includes the research question, the purpose and significance of this research in a reading class in Chinese senior high schools. it talks about the theories of reading and three reading models, and discusses the notion of a task, advantages of TBLT and theoretical considerations on the characteristics and principles of designing reading tasks. It also discusses the actual implementing TBLT in a reading class in Chinese senior schools, which includes the procedures, types of reading tasks, two samples Task -based reading models, and the roles of teachers.