Abstract

Besides listening, speaking and writing, reading plays an important role in language acquisition . As one of the most essential ways of inputting in English learning, reading builds a bridge between authors and readers and help readers obtain knowledge. Reading strategies help students read effectively and improve their reading ability.This study aims to examine the situation of using English reading strategies in Hangzhou junior high school classroom teaching and what kinds of reading strategies are actually used, and more importantly, how to cultivate students’ reading strategies in classroom teaching by investigating students in Hangzhou No.15 Middle School by means of questionnaire. The data show that there is a relationship between students’ reading comprehension grades and the applying of reading strategies, students’ ability of applying for reading strategies is not good enough and the teaching of the reading strategies is higher than expected and also higher than many other researches’ statistics. At last, the study recommends students should realize the importance of using reading strategies and teachers should pay attention to students’ real use of strategies, not only teach and emphasize strategies but also cultivate students’ own ability of using them in any reading materials.

Keywords: reading strategies; junior high school students; English teaching

Contents

Abstract

摘  要

1. Introduction-1

2. Literature Review-2

2.1The definition of reading strategies-2

2.2 The classification of reading strategies-3

2.3 Research at home and aboard-4

3. Methodology-6

3.1 Research Questions-6

3.2 Participates-6

3.3 Instrument-6

4. Results and Discussion-8

4.1 Results-8

4.2 Discussion-12

4.3 A Teaching Case-13

5. Conclusion...15