High School English Independent Reading Ability Ways To Cultivate

Autonomous learning has become a hot issue in educational field in the past twenty years. To cultivate students' autonomous learning ability is one of the main aims in the new curriculum reform. The new syllabus asks for higher reading abilities: level 6—reading as many as 200000 words except the textbook; level 7—reading as many as 300000 words except the textbook; level 8—reading as many as 360000 words except the textbook. Obviously, we can not achieve these goals , using traditional teaching and learning methods. Independent reading which is a part of autonomous learning should be paid more attention to. This paper aims at exploring a set of ways to cultivate High School students' independent English reading ability , which is based on the theory of the zone of proximal development, constructive views of education, humanistic learning theories, the theory of autonomous learning and some related reading theories. The questionnaire method is used to investigate the present situation of High School students' independent English reading. Then the writer puts forward a set of training ways to cultivate High School students' independent English reading ability ( such as: the teaching of emotion and perseverance, the training in reading strategies and reading skills, etc.), using the experimental method for a term to test the effectiveness of the training ways. At the end of the experiment, it shows that High School students' independent English reading ability can be cultivated and improved by this set of training ways .At the same time , it changes the students' learning style and the teachers' teaching view. But the results also expose some problems to be solved. Such as: Some students' dependence on the teacher. How the teacher plays the role ? etc.