Analysis And Countermeasures Of English Reading Teaching In Senior High Schools

With the development of economic and social life in the 21st century, English, the most widely used language in the world,is becoming increasingly important. English is also a very important basic subject in high schools of China. As one of the four basic skills, reading performs a vital role in cultivating students'integrated language ability. Therefore, the teaching of reading plays an important and special role in high school English teaching.Under the new-round teaching reform's circumstances, New English Curriculum Standard of high school have set a high standard for teachers and students on teaching and learning of reading. But the problems related to teaching and learning of English reading are still very serious, which cannot meet the New English Curriculum Standard. Experts on language teaching have made a lot of research on this area and achieved a lot. Based on the results of these researches, the author went into the classroom to observe the reading teaching and make the questionnares. The author made a research and analyzed the main problems in high school English reading teaching and brought up some solutions in the end.This paper consists of four parts.The first part is introduction part, including the background and significance of this research.The second part is literature review part, which is composed of relative study on the approach of English reading teaching, the affect teaching in reading of high school, the culture awareness cultivation.The third part is the research part. The author investigates some high schools'English reading teaching situation and finds some problems by adopting two research methods----class obsevation and questionnare.The fourth part is the countermeasures part. The author tries to find countermeasures for these problems exhibited in the third part.