HowtoCultivateSeniorHighSchoolStudents’ReadingCompetenceinEnglishTeaching

毕业论文〔设计)1.IntroductionReading as well as listening is a chief means of obtaining information,and it isone of the important means of gaining different kinds of knowledge and of benefitingfrom the achievements.Individuals could not advance without reading,for readingcan arouse people's curiosity about the world and then develops their qualities inEnglish language and humanities.Reading is an important language input.Therefore,the study of how to make good use of this means of input and optimize the readinginput is of great significance.With the aim of making students have access to a lot ofcomprehensible and effective reading texts,the difficulty of materials,the sufficiencyof reading and the method of reading teaching should be well studied.What are your purposes for reading?It is not very likely that you are interestedin the pronunciation of what you read,nor you are interested in the grammaticalstructure.You read because you do want to get information from what you read,aswell as to get enjoyment,ideas,and feelings.According to Christine Nuttall (2002,8),reading is concerned with the transfer of meaning from mind to mind,the transfer of amessage from writer to reader.Meaning comes from an interaction between thoughtand language,because reading is an active and interactive process.Reading is so important that we can't get rid of it in our daily life.This is one ofthe reasons why we should cultivate reading competence.In order to cultivate readingcompetence,the difficulty of materials should be appropriate for us to read.If wekeep on having access to the level of"i+1"advocated by Krashen (1997),we can