Qingpu District Junior High School English Classroom Reading Instruction And Measures

Reading is an important part of English teaching in middle school as a second language teaching. There are many domestic and international researches on reading. Having searched the large number of documents, the author developed a student questionnaire and a teacher questionnaire, and conducted an investigation for an English reading teaching of the junior high school in the region. A certain number of students and teachers conducted the survey, while the class observation is conducted. The purposes of the investigation is to understand the cases of junior high school English reading teaching in this area in recent years, to collect first-hand information and data, and to look for the way of improvement for the next stage. The data were collected via focus observations and questionnaires. According to the data, the author found that many students are afraid of difficulties in reading. Also, many of them lack of interest and confidence. Also, there are some problems our teaching of reading. For example, reading activities are not scientific and appropriate enough. The learn ing process and learning methods of cultivation are ignored. The study lists some strategies to improve the reading teaching, which included the following aspects-- the paper design from the front-end analysis, the guidance and training of learning strategies, teaching evaluation and feedback, etc.First of all, the front-end Analysis including text selection and study can be a necessary stage while designing reading lessons. In order to understand the entry skills of the students, we also need to adapt the approach of task analysis which will influence our plans of the teaching. Moreover, in the classroom teaching, teachers should choose appropriate teaching methods and reading activities, and should give the students explicit reading instruction, encouraging them to be aware of their own reading processes and provide them with enough time to think. In addition, teachers should pay more attention to class feedback and the functions of evaluation, which can motivate the students to work harder and to learn more efficiently.