阅读是获取信息并与他人交流的一种方式。现在我们的社会标志着知识爆炸。阅读是吸收外国先进技术和知识最便捷的方式。在信息世界的兴起中，阅读在学习者的发展中起着重要的作用。英语作为一门国际语言，与世界各国建立了沟通的桥梁。2001年，教育部根据教育部的改革，制定了《英语课程标准》。在该文件中，明确提出教师应提高学生的综合素质。英语教学目标是培养学生的学习氛围，使学生自主学习英语。此外，教师应不断培养学生观察、反思、思考、想象和创造的能力。同时，要提高学生对中西文化差异的认识，扩大他们的视野，培养爱国主义精神，帮助他们最终形成健康的人生观。英语阅读体现了学生在英语学习中的综合能力。NG，它是第一个也是最重要的输入源。从学习的角度看，阅读是口语、听力和写作的基础。学生经常阅读各种各样的英语书籍、杂志或其他东西，以丰富他们的“语言感受”，通过这种方式，他们可以逐步提高他们的阅读能力，提高背景知识和激发他们的思想。
Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Background of the Present Study
Reading is a way to get information and communicate with others. Now our society ismarked with knowledge explosion. Reading is the most convenient way to take in foreignadvanced technology and knowledge. In the informational emerging of the world, the readingplays an important position in the development of the learners. English as an internationallanguage, it builds the bridge to communicate with the world.According to the reform of Ministry of Education in 2001, an instructional file waspassed and acted as the national standard of English curriculum. In this file, it was clearly statedthat teachers should improve students’ comprehensive quality. The teaching objective of Englishwas to cultivate a helpful atmosphere for students so as to make the learners study English ontheir own initiative. Besides, the teachers should keep cultivating students’ ability to observe, tomemorize, to think, to imagine and create. At the same time, they should increase students’awareness of the cultural difference between East and West; enlarge their vision, cultivate theirpatriotic spirit; and help them form healthy views about life in the end.English reading reflects the all-round capability of students in English learning, and itwas the first and foremost input sources. From the perspective of learning, reading is thefoundation of speaking, listening and writing. The students usually read all different kinds ofEnglish books, magazines or something else in order to enrich their “speech feeling”, throughthis way, they can improve their reading competence gradually, improving backgroundknowledge and inspiring their thoughts. Finally, reading will cultivate the junior high schoolstudents’ English reading abilities completely. In modern times, the English reading part takes up30 points of the total 120 points of exams. It indicates that English reading plays a considerablerole in exams. Therefore, paying more attention to English reading is essential and important.
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1.2 Purpose of the Present Study
Scaffolding Instruction teaching has been used in plenty of foreign countries on a largescale in the last few decades. However, in China, the scaffolding English teaching was just on thestage of elemental level. Its application in China was not very common. In EFL, the studies werefocused on the application of the English reading class; there were only a few studies to clear anddefinite which kind of reading competences will be improved through scaffolding instruction.The Scaffolding Instruction has already been used in English teaching for a long time, but someresearches were emphasized on its feasibility while ignored how the Scaffolding Instructioninfluenced students’ reading ability and affected which English reading parts. So this study waswanted to clear the particular influences of Scaffolding Instruction in English reading of juniorhigh school. After the studies, the author wanted to achieve the goal that the junior high schoolstudents were developed in answering the detail questions and main idea questions, even theword guessing questions and Inference questions and so on. Then the author wanted to promotethe students’ critical reading ability and increase the percent of the right answer.
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Chapter 2 Literature Review
Teaching methods reflected whether the teaching activities follow the objective laws or not.Beyond that, it can verify the teaching behaviors. Under the guidance of the educational theoriesor teaching methods, the students and activities can form an orderly, systema
