DefinitionsandClassificationsofReadingStrategiesinEnglishteaching-精選文檔

1、Definitions and Classifications of Reading Strategies in English teaching 【】 Over the years ， numerous strategies to teaching reading have appeared. The author believes that these strategies are not just teaching reading； rather ， they are guiding an assisting learners to develop as independent read

2、ers ， writers ， and learners. At the same time they are also a philosophy of learning. To master the definitions and classifications of reading strategies is very necessary for the college students in their English learning ， because it facilitates their reading ability and it also develops their le

3、arning interest in English. 【s】reading strategy ， classification ， English teaching The author believes that language serves personal， social ，and academic aspects of students lives ， and that students become literate as they grapple with the meaning and uses of print in their environments. A differ

4、ent definition of strategy instruction is more general and involves how a person thinks and acts when planning ， executing ， and evaluating performance of a task and its outcomes （ Lenz， Ellis ， & Scanlon ， 1996 ）. This definition of strategy instruction is related to development of metacognition ，

5、or students ability to control and manage their cognitive activities in a reflective ， purposeful fashion（Gersten ， Fuchs ， & Williams ， 2001 ） . Weaver （ 1994） divides these strategies into two larger categories ： （1）Bottom-up Strategy Part-centered （ also called Code-emphasis or Bottom-up ） strate

6、gy ， which views reading instruction as moving from learning the“parts ” and building up to the “whole ”. In bottom -up processing ， the readers build up a meaning from the black marks on the page： recognizing letters and words ， working out sentence structure. They can make conscious use of it when

7、 an initial reading leaves them confused. （2）Top-down Strategy Socio-psycholinguistic（ also called Meaning-emphasis or Top-down ） strategy ， which emphasize the overall construction of meaning from connected or whole texts ， and draw on the reader s and writer s schemata and personal experiences. Th

8、is kind of strategy processing is used when readers interpret assumptions and draw inferences. The readers make conscious use of it when they try to see the overall purpose of the passage ， or get a rough idea of the pattern of the writers argument ， in order to make a reasoned guess at the passage

9、step. This enables readers to predict the writer s purpose ， the likely trend of the argument and so on ， and then use third framework to interpret difficult parts of the passage. Whereas with a Top-down strategy ， the interaction process between the reader and the text involves the reader in antici

10、pating the knowledge of the world ， plus past experiences ， expectations and intuitions to arrive at the meaning of the passage. That is ， Top-down process interacts with bottom-up process in order to aid comprehension. Therefore effective reading should involve the integration of both Bottom-up and

11、 Top-down strategies. Their relationship is like the following Bottom-up （Cited in McDonough J. and Shaw C. 1993： 110 ） （3）Skimming and Scanning strategies Blake （1989： 169） describes skimming and scanning strategies as follows ： Skimming and scanning are strategies for making fast searches for info

12、rmation. Readers can use them to find what they need without reading the whole materials. It can save our work and time. That is to say the readers simply let their eyes wander over the passage until find what they are looking for， whether it be a name ， a date ， or a less specific piece of informat

13、ion. When readers apply skimming strategy， first they should know predicting is the core of skimming. It is the faculty of predicting or guessing what is to come next， making use of grammatical ， logical and cultural clues. And Unlike predicting ， previewing is the core of scanning which involves us

14、ing the table of contents ， the appendix ， the preface ， the chapter and paragraph headingsin order to find out where the required information is likely to be. The key to skimming is to find the main idea of the selection or different paragraphs， and to be able to synthesize them into an organic who

15、le by way of generalization. Conclusion Reading is a highly effective means of acquisition foreign language knowledge. It is also a complex cognitive process which various sub-components such as decoding skills， knowledge of text structures ， schematic knowledge and processing strategies interact si

16、multaneously to help readers construct coherent meaning from texts (Carrel & Eskey 1988 ， cited in Brown ) . Additional research has been directed at improving second language readers use of strategies through specific reading activities (Nuttall ，1989； Grabe ， 1991 ； Anderson 1999). Most important

17、all， reading is gradually being recognized as a valuable source of language input， particularly for students in learning environments as in EFL context and reading is the major means that the educational system uses to develop students ability to reason and evaluate. Under this circumstance， the res

18、earcher carries out this study which focuses on reading strategy definitions and classifications among with the goal of strategy training is to explicitly teach students how， when， and why strategies can be used to facilitate their efforts at reading learning and using a foreign language smoothly. References ： 1. Anderson， N. J. （1999）. Exploring second language ： issues and strategies. M Beiji 2. Baltimore ，