| The teaching of English reading is important and difficult in high school. Difficulties in the teaching of English reading lie in the reading strategies that require a long period of time to train and improve. Reading strategies can pay off only by the instruction and the guidance of the teacher. As for senior high school students, reading strategies are very significant to improve their reading skills. Besides, background knowledge and information transfer exist during the learning process, and English teachers should attach greater importance to how to transfer the readers' existing knowledge and information during their reading to make a better understanding of the whole text. At the same time, the transfers of knowledge and skills in English reading are not automatic, but conditional. The conditions of this transfer are as follows:Firstly, high school students have a certain level of English. They accumulated a certain amount of vocabulary and master the basic grammar of the English language. In high school, however, the main task of traditional English teaching is the knowledge of English itself rather than the skills in learning English. Secondly, students have related reading strategies in their first language reading. They will more or less choose the proper reading strategies for target language reading in hope of better understanding. In this case, teachers should guide students to use reading strategies and skills to improve student's reading ability and level of understanding. Thirdly, students have prior knowledge. The teacher should guide the students to transfer the prior knowledge and the background knowledge in the reading process of the target language.As my experiment shows, I have made full use of the transfer of information, attitudes and skills in the teaching of English reading and my result shows the uses of transfer in the process of teaching and learning have led to the better ability of English reading.
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