An investigation of non-English majors after-class English reading and their English proficiency 英语专业毕业论文.docVIP

An investigation of non-English majors after-class English reading and their English proficiency Content Abstract i 摘要 iii 1 Introduction 1 1.1 background 1 1.2 Current situation 1 1.3 Purpose of the study 2 1.4 Significance of the study 2 2 Research design 3 2.1 Research questions 3 2.2 Research subjects 3 2.3 Survey instruments 3 2.4 Spss11.5 5 3 Analysis and discussion 5 3.1 The time Non-English Majors spend in English after-class reading 5 3.2 The purpose and effects of after-class English reading 6 3.3 Reading methods and strategies 7 3.4 Relationship between extracurricular reading and English proficiency 7 4 Conclusion 8 5 Some recommendations for current situations 9 5.1 Learning strategies 9 5.2 For individuals 9 5.3 For teachers 10 Reference 11 Appendix 1 13 Appendix 2 15 Appendix 3 17 Abstract Reading is an indispensable means for people to obtain knowledge, many foreign linguists through plenty of researches found that a lot of reading including recreational reading can extremely helpful for improving the ability in second language learning but how about the situation of chinese Non-English majors extracurricular Reading ,and what relationship between their extracurricular reading and their English proficiency ? For these questions this paper pay particular attention to the fellow questions (1)How long time the Non-English Majors spend in after-class reading？ (2)What is the purpose of Non-English Majors after-class reading? (3)What are the effects of Non-English Majors after-class reading? (4)What relationship between non-English majors extracurricular English reading and their English proficiency The instruments adopted in this paper included two questionnaires and interviews.the questionnaire consisted of two parts the first part is the basic situation of investigators, The second part consists multiple choices. Respectively research Students reading material selection, reading methods, reading goals and reading effects. The interviews were based o