Some principles behind the teaching of reading 如何提高学生英语阅读能力.docVIP

Some principles behind the teaching of reading Introduction Reading is an important way of gaining information in foreign language leaning. It is a basic skill for a language leaner. There is lots of reading exercise in examination today. But all the readings must be done in limited time. So students are asked to read them correctly and with a certain speed. This needs great efforts from both students and teachers. As a teacher, they should know some tangible errors in reading comprehension and then give the corresponding help. This paper gives some principles behind the teaching of reading and analyses briefly some errors in reading comprehension. To improve students抮eading, the first we must know is the essence of reading .Only though this, we can find out different means of achieving proficient reading according to each student. Chapter One The Essence of Reading As we know, the psycholinguistic model of EFT is a meaning-based model proposed by Goodman 1967 and Smith 1971 . Goodman thinks that in the reading process the “reader reconstructs, as best as he can, a message which has been encoded by a writer as a graphic display” Goodman 1973 . Smith says “···skill in reading actually depends on using the eyes as little as possible, ···as we become fluent readers we learn to rely more on what we already know, on what is behind the eyeballs, and less on the print on the page in front of us” 1978 . The psycholinguists assume that if the reader has the ability to select the productive language cues, he can decode, through his psycholinguistic processing, the message in the text, and share much of information which the writer intends to convey. The communicative approach of EFL, Which prevails after World War Ⅱ,holds that “The primary goal of most foreign language learning is to develop the ability to use real and appropriate language to communicate and interact with others, and the goal of foreign language teaching is to extend the range of communicative situatio