| The aims of college English teaching is to develop students’ comprehensive application abilities,that is the intergrated development of listening,speaking,reading,writing and translation abilities.Among these five ablities,the students’ English reading level is a important reflection of the development of their English language.Therefore,reading teaching takes a very important part in college English teaching.However,the current situation of college English reading teaching is not ideal.The reason is that English teachers use traditional PPP model to teach,i.e.presenation,practice,product,and lay emphasis on the impartment of basic knowledge.Teachers are the authorities who dominate the whole class,ignoring the sutudents’ principal parts in learning,which results in the students’ mechanical and passive learning situation and is bad for the improvement of student s’ reading ability.Task-based languge teaching method changes traditional teaching model.Teachers design varies tasks and students learn language knowledge based on the completion of tasks.The cooperation and communication among students increase and the self-learning ablities are enhanced,which are greatly helpful for the development of students’ comprehensive language abilities.Based on the literature review,this paper summarizes the current research situation of task and task-based languge teaching method at home and abroad,and reviews the application research stituation of task-based languge teaching method on college English teaching and college English reading teaching.On these basis and according to the basic theory of task-based language teaching method,the paper carries on an empirical research by the means of English tests,questionnaire and classroom teaching cases to prove that the application of task-based languge teaching method on college English reading teaching is valid and feasible.The process of the empirical research is pre-research,teaching and post-research.The research time is from February to July in 2015,total 16 teaching weeks.The research subjects are the 129 freshmen of non-English majors of 2014 Class in East China Jiaotong University.Class IVB4 is the experimental class with 65 students,and proceeds with Task-based languge teaching method;IIB6 is the control class with 64 student and traditional teaching method is used for reading teaching.At the first week of the semester,a reading test paper form CET4 is chosen to judge the two classes are parallel classes;at the end of the semester,another reading test paper form CET4 is used to test the students’ reading ability and the results show that students’ reading scores in experimental class are better than that in control class.The questionnaires are given out in the experimental class to investigate the students’ emotional changess towards traditional teaching method and task-based languge teaching method.The results shows that the experimental sudents’ learning habits,learning attitude,learning interests,learning motivation,self-confidence,learning atonomy have improved a lot after one-semester experiment.A typical case is presented to show the teacher how to design tasks and assign tasks to students.The students not only fully complete the tasks,but also develop the cooperative spirit.The results of the experiment indicate that the application of task-based languge teaching method on college English teaching is not only feasible but also valid,which is worth extending.But because of the research time,the number of research subjects and some self reasons,the experiment still exists some limitations and needs to be improved by future researchers. |
