A Study On Task-based Language Teaching In Senior High School English Reading Teaching

Reading plays an important part in the four basic skills of English, it is a comprehensive skill, and reading ability can reflect learners’English ability. Developing students’reading ability is not only an important goal of China’s senior high school English teaching, but also the focus of test. New English Curriculum Standards also make it clear that the high school should focus on training students’reading ability.But the current English reading teaching is still confined to the traditional teaching approach, which hinders students’reading ability in English reading learning. The traditional methods of teaching reading pay much attention to language forms and neglect training students’reading ability, which leads the students to become passive receivers.To find a more effective method to improve students’reading ability, many experts have done a lot of attempts and researches, the emergence of Task-based Language Teaching makes a reply to this question. Task-based Language Teaching emphasizes "student-centered", to promote "learning by doing"; students are learning the subject involved in the learning process, which will greatly stimulate the students’motivation to learn English. High school English Curriculum Standards issued by the Ministry of Education in2002also advocate that Task-based approach should be used in the classroom to improve students’language learning.In this thesis, the author attempts to apply Task-based Language Teaching into high school English reading teaching to train students’sense of using reading strategies in reading process and thus improve their reading ability.The author did a four-month-experiment in Xinjiang Hejing High School, the subjects were divided into experimental class and controlled class. According to the result of the author’s experiment, students in the experimental class made a big progress in English reading. The result shows that the implementation of TBLT in English reading teaching in senior high school is practical and feasible; TBLT can not only stimulate students’interest, but also improve their reading ability.