An Empirical Study On Fostering High School Students’ English Reading Strategies Based On Guided Learning Plans

Reading has played an important role in foreign language teaching and learning. It not only provides enough linguistic input, but also lays a foundation for learners’ further development in listening, speaking and writing. To make it, reading strategies should be introduced into the classroom teaching and scientific training should be provided to students to enhance their reading comprehension.However, most of English teachers are lack of efficient methods to teach reading. As a result, students are bored by the teacher’s rigid teacher-dominated teaching, and they are lack of necessary reading strategies. The National English Curriculum Standard for High school students issued by the National Education Ministry has stated that the strategy for language use should be enhanced. So it is most urgent to teach learners how to read rather than what to read.It is noticed that guided teaching plan offers scaffolding for learner to learn by themselves. Motivated by this, this study applies the guided teaching plan to the teaching of reading to enhance learners’ reading strategies so as to improve reading ability as the final goal.The author acted as both the teacher and the researcher, who was responsible for leading students in writing the guided learning plans and collecting data.43students were involved in the whole process of the experiment as subjects.The results show that the reading strategy training, based on guided learning plans, is effective in improving not only the subjects’ reading strategy at the overall level but also the metacognitive and the cognitive levels, testing and verifying the hypothesis of the research.