A Study On The Application Of Meta-cognitive Strategies To English Reading Course In Preparatory Schools With English-reading-teaching Of The Preparatory Class NWUN As An Exemplar

Over the past20-30years, researches on pedagogy turn their focus from "how to teach" to "how to learn", and, at the same time, learning strategy remains an important field of second language acquisition. The highest level learning strategy----meta-cognitive strategies which can help learners become effective learners has been widely studied. These studies get involved in every aspect of English learning:listening, speaking, reading and writing. But these studies mainly took university students as the research subjects; they rarely research preparatory school students, especially National Minority Preparatory School student. National Minority Preparatory School students are a group of special university students. Due to geographical and economic factors, their basic knowledge is poor. They are eager to improve their learning efficiency and want to become effective learners. Reading is an important input of second language acquisition. Effective reading can improve learners’learning motivation and learning effect. So as a National Minority Preparatory Schoolteacher, to find out how to improve national preparatory school students’English learning efficiency, and whether meta-cognitive strategies training can help them read well become the author’s focus of research.This study takes meta-cognitive as the breakthrough point and meta-cognitive theory as a guide to discuss the relevant on meta-cognitive strategies and English reading teaching. Through the analysis of the psychological and metal development of National Minority Preparatory School student and related reading theory the present paper attempts to research for a relativity between National Minority Preparatory School students and meta-cognitive strategy, and apply the meta-cognitive strategies to reading, by means of questionnaire and reading test materials to get experimental data and SPSS to analyze data. By doing this, we can testify the hypothesis.The experimental results show that the meta-cognitive strategy training has more obvious role in promoting National Minority Preparatory School students’English reading competence.