how to improve english reading ability.doc

英语阅读情况调查问卷姓名 _ 性别 _ 专业 _ 年级_说明： 本问卷是一项关于英语阅读的调查，希望您能根据自己的实际情况作答。答案选项本身没有优劣之分，您做答所获数据将仅供研究使用。1- 完全符合2- 符合3- 不确定4- 不符合5- 完全不符合。内 容123451我认为有必要制订详细的阅读计划2对于主题比较熟悉的阅读材料, 我根据自己的已有知识来推测。3我通过借鉴别人有效的阅读方法来调整自己的阅读方法.4我在阅读时候会把文章翻译成中文然后理解。5我很重视阅读中的连词, 以及各种表明作者观点和态度的词语。6我对自己的阅读方法进行自我评价和检验。7对于长难句，我通过分析句子结构来理解。8阅读文章时, 生词对我的阅读理解影响很大。9我通过查词典来对付阅读中遇到的生词。10对于不同类型的文章,阅读时我会考虑用不同的方法。11我对遇到的生词进行推测。12对于我认为不重要的生词,我在阅读时候就跳过去。13我通过上下文来理解整篇文章,注意文章的整体性。14我通过分析自己在阅读中碰到的困难来找出策略方面的薄弱环节并加以改进。15我对阅读材料很注意从语篇整体的角度去进行分析。16通过自己的阅读训练,我可以找到适合自己的阅读方法。17我选择适合自己的阅读材料来阅读。18阅读时我着重理解主题句。19对于重要的信息,我在阅读时候用汉语做标记。20我认为不同的方法会对阅读的效果有很大的影响。摘要：本文就大学生英语阅读调查问卷中存在的问题进行分析。调查结果表明大学生在英语阅读中存在多方面的障碍, 如词汇、语法、等语言因素及背景知识、阅读习惯、阅读心理等非语言因素。针这些情况组作了较为深入的分析并提出相应的对策, 以不断提高学生的英语阅读能力。关键词：英语阅读能力；障碍；对策；意见Abstract: this paper mainly analyzes some reading habits of college students according to my questionnaires which show that there are many obstacles in English reading, such as vocabulary, grammar, as well as nonlinguistic factors, such as background knowledge, reading habits, reading psychology. Accordingly, suggestions are put forward to enhance the students English reading ability.Key words: English reading ability, obstacles, improvement, skimmingOutlineThesis statement: English reading ability, as an essential capacity in our life and study, yet is not grasped well by most of our students, because we are lack of the basic components that include vocabulary, grammar, background knowledge, reading habits, reading psychology etc. As long as we are ready for those, enhancing reading ability is not a problem. I. The significance of reading ability for studentsA. of great urgencyB. influencing the grades of English tests.Components of English reading comprehensive ability A. vocabularyB. grammarC. background KnowledgeD. habitsE. psychological quality. Effective reading skillsA. Not rapid eye movementB. reading versatilityC. skimming. Conclusion: Through the analysis above we should read between the lines so that we get closer to the author and have a better understanding to articles.IntroductionWith the development of society, English reading not only appears in exams but also exists in looking information, getting Info, entertaining or chatting online. English articles are getting more and more, and the range of them is getting wider and wider. English, be the world nowadays international social intercourse language the success that it obtains is an unprecedented in history of. So enhancing English reading comprehension ability becomes utmost urgency How to enhance English Reading Comprehension AbilityThe importance of promoting students reading abilityWith the development of society, English reading not only appears in exams but also exists in looking information, getting Info, entertaining or chatting online. English articles are getting more and more, and the range of them is getting wider and wider. English, be the world nowadays international social intercourse language the success that it obtains is an unprecedented in history of. So improving students reading ability is of great urgency.The score takes about 40%in the college English test band 4. In a certain extent, doing well or not in the reading comprehension directly influences the grades of English tests. Moreover reading could maintain the interesting of learning English， strengthen knowledge and improve ability and be helpful for students to have a better understanding of the world. We can not study foreign language well without improving the reading ability. Status in quo of college students reading ability and the analysis of the obstaclesEnglish reading comprehensive ability consists of vocabulary, grammar, cultural knowledge and reading skills. According to my questionnaire, however, almost 80% students who answered to it are far from satisfied with their reading job. To see why, I took a more detailed questionnaire. Finally I got the reasons. 1. Severe lack of vocabularies As the survey shows, there exist three problems. First, they pay little attention to the accumulation of vocabularies. Second, about 45% students fail to continue reading when they meet new words. Third, some of them just guess the new words according to the texts, which influences the understanding to the details of texts. Vocabulary is the foundation of language, and every reading material is made up of a number of words formed in grammatical rules. Dictionary with a large vocabulary contains as many as 200,000 entries. But a common college student indeed master and apply only 3,000 to 4,000 words. It is simply a drop in the bucket! what is more，Scientific and technical terms as well as catchphrase continually appear on paper. No doubt that these situations add the difficulty to English reading. Hence we have to enlarge our vocabulary in order to improve reading ability. Of course it needs persistence, or reading will hardly go on. Generally the larger vocabulary you get the fewer obstacles you meet.One of reasons for vocabulary obstacles is that we pay little attention to vocabulary accumulation. The range of vocabulary is just so narrow. Second many of us just master one word and one meaning. So when they meet polysemy, they feel confused. Moreover, some students would skip the words that they do not know. Or they would count on dictionary or e-dictionary, which either wastes lots of time or the meaning they get doesnt necessarily meet the one in the context. It is the main obstacle for students to enhance their reading ability.2. grammatical capability is weakIn grammar the problems are also severe, and which form a bigger hinder, once facing long sentences the students accounting for 72% of the total are hard to make them clear. 66% students are insensitive to contextual pronouns, disjunctive conjunctions, and causal adverbs. The base unit of a sentence is word, and every sentence is made up of words in certain grammatical rules. Having acquired a good knowledge of grammar is good to enhance the capacity of analyzing sentences. When reading we should grasp the meaning of sentences through the grammar structures or styles. Thus Grammar has a great effect on reading speed and accuracy. 3. shortcomings in background KnowledgeAs we all know, the differences of the area of national life, surroundings, social system and civilization lead to the diversity of every nations thinking style, language habit and behavior. Because of this, each nation have big difficulty in commutating. Though a student abroad learns a lot of English language, he would feel hard to handle the culture shock. That is because he knows little about the culture abroad. This gives us a lesson that we have to learn the culture well in language studying. In my surveys, 56% students have such appearance that they know all the words in a paragraph, but still do not understand the hidden meaning of it. 83% students being lack of cultural background information of Britain & America have poor understanding on reading, which causes reading disabilities. Lets take “face” for example.He has squandered his money and he has got to face the music.If you continue doing something wrong long enough, sooner or later you are going to face the music. So what does the expression “face the music” mean? Its for you to make it out if you have no idea about its story.It means to accept the results of what you have done. No one is sure how the expression began. One story is that it came from a military ceremony held when a soldier was forced out of an army. The buttons were cut from the soldiers clothing. He was put on a horse, facing the back of the horse and led away. As he left, he faced the music of a military band and the soldiers he had served with. Another story says the expression began in the theater. New actors, shaking with fright, were told that the only cure was to go out and face the music. The music was played by the orchestra seated in front of the stage.4. Not good and scientific reading habitsReading ability includes reading speed and reading comprehension. The survey shows that there are lots of students developing habits on reading, which also affect Reading ability. Some students are accustomed to murmuring words. In fact this is quite unscientific，because they pay much attention to vocabularies, and which has an adverse effect upon the entire understanding of the contents as well as reading speed. Thus vocalizing goes against enhancing reading ability. so the same with sub-vocalizing. Some others like doing something else while reading, such as picking his nose, playing pens, listening to music. These actions distract their attention so as not to enhance reading ability. Bad habits of reading can only increase your burden.5. Bad psychology of readingAs for mental mechanism, many psycholinguists hold that reading is a psychological activity. It is a procedure of readers and authors mutual participating. In the traditional mode of teaching, teachers just impart basic knowledge, and regardless of cultivating students good psychology of reading. As a result, students are prone to bring out impatience, anxiety, fear and such bad feelings. 52% students can not keep a good mood while reading in my research. Therefore bad psychology of reading greatly affects improvement of reading ability. Some Suggestions to overcome the obstacles in readingReading is a kind of constructive thinking process. It not only includes the understanding of the literal meaning, but also includes the understanding of the implicit semantics. Reading ability contains analysis, evaluation and imagination. It is essential to strengthen students reading strategy In order to adapt to the needs of foreign language learning. Based on the above dyslexia in the analysis, and the practice teaching, the following can eliminate those obstacles. In order to effectively improve students reading ability, college English teachers should find some pertinent countermeasures in the ordinary English teaching implementation.1. Update ideas, brave practice new teaching methodsThe new curriculum revolution is not a change of a series of textbooks but a update of educational concepts, a change of the talent fostering mode to reform and all round reform involves classroom teaching modes, students learning pattern and evaluation of teaching effects. Against this backdrop, teachers should strive to study education theories, change the educational ideas, strengthen study, widely practice under the guide of advanced theory and explore advanced and effective teaching methods. Only when teaching thought and teaching method transformed, can the situation of extensive cultivation change, can reading teaching be freed from simple grammar teaching and can the ability of Students acquiring information and Presenting Information improve.2. Solve the problems of vocabulary and grammar, and lay a solid foundation in readingTo a language learner, linguistic ability in vocabulary and grammar is the base of reading. Teachers should take various measures to encourage students grinding away at memorizing words to enlarge vocabulary, such as series connection Memorial Method, affix Memorial Method. Of course, it is insufficient for a vocabulary book to enlarge vocabulary, so, we should read more English articles at ordinary times to understand the words in the article. The understanding of vocabulary includes two forms, the understanding of Structural Words and notional word. At the same time, we should hold the clue of overall structure and distinguish the layer of sentence structure. Secondly, Structural relationship between modifier and modified ingredients should be recognized.In the last place, we also need to get the mood of the whole sentence, that is to say, what the meaning of the sentence is (derogatory or commendatory, Positive or negative). Wed better care certain skills to master vocabulary and grammar well. In the usual accumulation, some usage to the flexible word, adverbs, verb tenses, passive, etc should be paid more attention to. Though grammar is relatively difficult to master, but as long as much more practice, long-term training, can solve this problem. 3. Knowing of English culture background, and enlarging our scope of knowledge According to Schema theory, background knowledge plays an important part in reading. The range of background information is quite wide and it includes culture, custom, geography, science and technology, etc. British &American Culture and Society, British & American Literature, History of British &American Literature etc can help students understand those countries information. Actually Americans usually say how are you doing? -pretty well, rather than how do you do?. When teaching, teachers can choose some articles rich in background knowledge for students extracurricular reading. After a period of training, students can understand more, and their reading ability will enhance significantly.4. Stimulate reading interest, cultivate good reading habitsEveryone knows that if a person has no interest in something, easily imagining that he will not do it well. As Piaget psychologist puts “interest performs a regulatory function, freeing up or stopping the investment of energy in a person.” Everybody selecting Optional reading materials chooses some interesting ones. Some English joke or humorous short stories downloaded from the Internet will increase our reading interest and improve the quality. Good reading habits have great effect on improving reading ability. We can apply restricted time reading methods. It is proved that cap reading can be very good to improve our ability to read. So in the normal reading, it is necessary to overcome all kinds of bad reading habits, and regular cap reading training, and strive to improve reading speed.5. Develop good psychological traitsIt is essential for a true reader to have a good psychological quality. for fear of producing mental maladjustment In the process of reading，At the beginning of reading one should eliminate inferiority mentality, establish self-confidence, and believe oneself able to figure it out. In addition, we follow the principle of gradual improvement from easy to difficult through reading training. At the same time, we should always keep calm, be impatient and not remorse or complain when we dont remember some words or meaning of sentences. Of course, if your vocabulary is rich, you have certain self-confidence foundation, so good English foundation is good for eliminating psychological barrier. At the same time, teachers should interact with students timely in the classroom, and allow the students to discuss in small groups so that students can be active and interested in reading. as long as you have these above done, your psychological quality will be improved, and your reading scores will be improved either. Reading efficiency What do we mean when we talk about “reading efficiency”? Does it mean more than saving time by reading rapidly? Reading effectively most certainly includes understanding the ideas the writer is trying to send. It includes organizing those ideas logically to remember them. But it also has to include processing the information as quickly as possible； we have so much to read and understand in what always seems too little time. Reading is not a simple physical activity. You see nothing while your eyes are moving; to see, you must stop and focus. Reading is much more than eye movement. When it is properly developed, the reading process is a thinking process. When you are reading to learn , you are constantly thinking, evaluating, judging, imagining, comparing ,and reasoning. Uou are adding new information to precious knowledge judging its value, and comparing its use in solving problems or creating new horizons. Training your eyes to move faster is useful in breaking restrictive reading habits habits that slow you down and limit how much you remember, But eye movement alone will not increase your reading deficiency；The efficient reader is a thinking reader. Reading is a thinking process.The effective reader has a purpose for reading. The more definite the purpose, the more effective the reading is. Just as a purpose controls the way you walka leisurely walk through a park should be different from a long trip on foot in a short time or a rush to a hospital emergency rooma purpose controls the way you read. Having a goal to reach means getting rid of distractions that wont help you achieve that goal. As with waling, the methods you use vary with the goals you establish.When you have achieved your goal and when you want to find a number in a phone book, reading the entire book is, obviously, not an aid in achieving your goal quickly. You may read for pleasure with no intention of using the information you read for any other purpose. Or you may read to find the sequence of events leading to a particular war. You may need to understand precious action taken before you can define a new policy, or you may want to know metric equivalent for a pound. When you have found what you are seeking, you have satisfied your purpose for reading; you have as much comprehension as you need.What is reading versatility?If to read is to understand, the reading method used to achieve the readers purpose will be determined by the type of material and its difficulty. A book on chemistry will not be read at the same speed as a novel, even by a chemist. And