Junior High School English Reading Strategies And Training

Reading is an essential skill for foreign language students. As a chief means of input in English language learning, English reading occupies an important place in the aspects of skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing. Therefore, with the development of information society, reading is regarded as the most important way in gaining information. Although we spend much time and make many efforts on reading, the results of teaching are not satisfactory. Teachers spend more efforts on words, sentences and grammar than in guiding the students to know how to read. Students do not know much about reading strategies and how to use them. The main purpose of this study is to examine the effect of the strategy training on English reading. The results of present study shows that integrating training of reading strategies into classroom teaching in the junior middle school is practical and effective. Strategies training can help students find pleasure in English reading and develop their learning autonomy.The thesis consists of five parts. Part one is an introduction, which gives a brief account of the necessity and validity of carrying out this present study. In Part two, literature review introduces some important theories in the research of language learning strategies, reading strageties and strategy training. Part three describes the procedure of the study, including the subjects of the study, the instruments, the research questions,etc. Part four makes a description of the data analysis and discuss the results. Part five gives a short conclusion of the research and the limitations of the study are also mentioned here. Also some suggestions for reading teaching are give in this part.