新课程英语阅读教学探究

单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,新课程英语阅读教学探究,北京师范大学外文学院,外语教育与教师教育研究所,王蔷,What is reading?,Reading is to understand every word of the text.,Reading is to extract information from the text.,Reading is to learn new words and new structures.,Reading is to construct meaning based on the given text and based on ones own knowledge and experience.,Do you agree with the following?,Reading has only one purpose,i.e.to get information.,Reading is a silent activity.,Reading aloud does not help much with omprehension.,Reading with a purpose is more effective than reading without a purpose.,When we read,our eyes are constantly moving from letter to letter,word to word and sentence to sentence.,Reading is an individual activity.,We need to know all the words in order to understand a text.,We read everything with the same speed.When reading in a foreign language,we mentally translate everything in order to understand.,It is helpful to use a dictionary to check and note down the meaning of all the new words while reading.,The lack of cultural knowledge may affect the rate of reading comprehension.Possessing a large amount of vocabulary is the key for reading comprehension.,Reading can best be improved by being engaged in reading and reading more.,What do we read in real life?,Calendars,Weather forecast,Addresses,Pamphlets,Product labels,Washing instructions,Short stories,Novels,Plays,Poems,Handbooks,Clothes size labels,Childrens scribbling,Informal letters,Business letters,Rules and regulations,E-mails,Fax messages,Postcards,Greeting cards,Store catalogues,Street signs,What do we read in real life?,Comic books,Newspapers,Diplomas,Application forms,Magazines,Radio/TV guides,Advertisements,Posters,Travel guides,Cookbooks,Repair manuals,Memos,Time schedules,Journal articles,Song lyrics,Film subtitles,Diagrams,Flowcharts,Name tags,How do we read?,Reading Aloud Silent Reading,With sound,Slow,Share information,Pronunciation,&intonation,Together,Easy,Without sound,Can be ajusted,Get information,skimming,scanning,Predicting,etc.,Individual,Not so easy,Manner,Speed,Purpose,Skills,Activity type,Management,Three models of teaching reading,The Bottom-up Model,The Top-down Model,The Interactive Model,Skills involved in reading comprehension,skimming,Scanning,Predicting,Guessing meaning from the context,Understanding details,Understanding,text organizations,Distinguishing main ideas from supporting,details,Skills involved in reading comprehension,Distinguishing facts from opinions,Understanding the communicative value,Understanding relations within sentences,Understanding relations between sentences,Understanding reference,Recognising discourse markers,Making inferences,Evaluating the authors attitude and opinions,Principles for teaching reading,Key words and background knowledge about the topic can be taught or activated before reading.,Tasks should be clearly given in advance and it should provide a purpose which motivates students.,Tasks should help develop students reading skills rather than test their reading comprehension.,The teacher should help the students not merely cope with one particular text but develop their reading strategies and reading ability in general so that they will be enabled to tackle other texts.,The teacher should help students to read on their own.We should aim at gradually withdrawing our guidance as our students progress so that they eventually become independent readers.,The role of vocabulary in reading,According to Day and Pamford(1998),efficient reading begins with a lightening-like automatic recognition of words.This initial process of accurate,rapid and automatic recognition of vocabulary frees the mind to use other resources one may have,such as ones reasoning abilities,ones world knowledge,ones knowledge about the topic,etc.to construct meaning.In other words,without the ability to rapidly recognise the words first coming into the eyes,no other resources can be put to use to aid comprehension as our minds will be fully occupied by the task of figuring out what all these words mean or busy checking them out from a dictionary one by one instead of making sense of the context they provide.,Sight vocabulary,Such words that one is able to recognize are often referred to as sight vocabulary.In other words,your sight vocabulary will be those words that you can recognise with both sounds and meanings without special effort from your brain.,How to develop sight vocabulary?,The best and easiest way to develop vocabulary is to read a great deal.Beginning readers simply have to encounter repeatedly words they have just learned because only when an individual word is met and understood again and again in different contexts can it become a part of the learners sight vocabulary.“Familiarity breeds automaticity(Day and Bamford:1998:16).,Important notes about sight vocabulary,There are two points that need to be noted regarding sight vocabulary.First,this automatic,rapid,and accurate process of word recogni