A Study On Developing The Ability Of English Critical Reading To Junior High School Students

Critical reading is a kind of deep reading, which requires the readers to use the methods of prediction, analysis, reasoning, summary and evaluation in the reading process to achieve a high understanding. In today's information society, training students‘ critical reading ability promotes their thinking ability and complies with the students‘ development. It is also consistent with the requirements of the compulsory education English curriculum standard for Junior 3 students on reading. Therefore, it is very necessary to carry out critical reading training in Junior 3.This study expounds the necessity of critical reading teaching in junior high school in theory and carries out an action research in practice. The purpose is to solve three main research problems. Firstly, how do the teachers implement critical reading teaching in English class? Secondly, can the critical reading strategies develop students‘ critical thinking ability effectively? Thirdly, can critical reading teaching improve students‘ interest in learning English? This study used the questionnaire, classroom experiment, interview, test, data analysis and other methods, selected two classes of Junior 3 in a middle school as the research objects, and recorded the development of students‘ critical reading ability in the experiment.The results showed that: Firstly, through the critical reading teaching, the students grasp some critical reading strategies, and the thinking ability is improved. Secondly, critical reading teaching improves the students‘ speed, accuracy and depth of the text understanding and. the scoring rate on reading comprehension. Thirdly, critical reading teaching can truly reflect the students‘ main body position, change their learning attitude, arouse the interest and mobilize the enthusiasm.This study explores critical reading teaching and train critical reading strategies in junior high school. The method of action research is used to verify the effect of critical reading teaching, which provides some references for the further research on improving junior high school students‘ critical reading ability.