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衔接理论在初中英语阅读教学中的应用研究

日期:2018年02月26日 编辑:ad201011251832581685 作者:无忧论文网 点击次数:1706
论文价格:300元/篇 论文编号:lw201602261344401315 论文字数:37655 所属栏目:初中英语教学论文
论文地区:中国 论文语种:English 论文用途:硕士毕业论文 Master Thesis
CHAPTER ONE   INTRODUCTION 

1.1 Background of the Research 
As  one  of  the  main  sources  of  getting  information,  reading  is  no  doubt  of importance  for  EFL  learners.  A  good  reading  competence  is  a  necessity  for  those using English for academic and occupational purpose. For those who are learning at school,  the  challenge  of  reading  is  huge.  In  most  English  examinations,  reading comprehension is the main skill to be tested, accounting for 40% to 50% of the total score in the test. Famous researchers like Wang Qiang (2000), Wen Qiufang conduct a  series  of  researches  in  order  to  find  out  some  beneficial  reading  strategies. Teachers  also  spare  no  efforts  to  find  effective  ways  to  improve  students’  reading competence.  Yet,  despite  continuous  practice  tutored  by  teachers  in  reading,  many students find difficulty in making sense of text they need to read.  Actually, the common phenomenon in junior high schools is that students pay their  most  attention  to  the  learning  of  individual  words,  language  points  and  fixed sentence patterns instead of the whole text. Most of the students care little about the arrangement of the whole text, the interrelation among different parts of a text. Thus, it  is  difficult  for  students  to  achieve  further  progress  in  English  reading.  Many scholars (Cook,1989; Grellet,1981; Mackay, 1979; Nuttall,2005) have suggested and some (Connor & Johns,1990)have shown that one of the reasons for this is failure to interpret  the  writer’s  cohesive  signals  or  fail  to  understand  the  functional  value  of individual  sentences  and  thus  their  relationship  to  each  other  and  the whole(Lubelska,1991). 
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1.2 The Purpose and the Significance of the Study 
The main purpose of the present study is to improve the reading comprehension ability of junior high school students based on cohesion theory. As is known to all, a good  reader  should  not  only  pay  attention  to  the  meaning  of  a  text,  but  also  try  to infer the underlined meaning and appreciate the experience and emotion of the writer. In this sense, cohesion theory suggests that to understand the structure or patterns of sentences and language points is not enough, and that he or she should make efforts to comprehend from the perspective of cohesion. There are many cohesion devices under  this  theory,  including  reference,  substitution,  ellipsis,  conjunction,  reiteration and collocation. If readers can grasp the idea of these cohesion devices, it will be of great help for them to understand the whole passage. In a word, the present study is conducted  for  the  aims  of  improving  competence  of  reading  of  students  in  junior high  school,  wishing  that  students  can  get  the  trick  and  charm  of  applying  the knowledge  of  cohesion  ties  into  reading  and  get  their  confidence  or  interest  in reading increased. There  are  many  reasons  for  the  researcher  to  conduct  this  re