Chapter Two Literature Review
2.1 Definitions of Text Interpretation
Text interpretation is an interactive activity between the reader and the text, aimed at understanding, explaining and constructing the meaning of the text. The world without gaze is meaningless and the uninterpreted text cannot release its value. The texts are meaningful with the use of interpretation. The readers can understand authors’ thoughts and feelings after interpretate the texts. But even though faced with the same text, different readers may have different interpretations, which is related with their existing background knowledge. These differences enable the connotation of the text to be continuously enriched and developed in the process of interpretation. Thus, there is an exploration of different text interpretation methods. According to Wang Xue (2013), in traditional reading teaching, text interpretation is singular, mainly centering on the analysis of language knowledge.
Text interpretation refers to the understanding and experience of texts through analysis. It is a cultural term, a process in which a sentence, an event and a person are recorded and interpreted in words. The text is a bridge between the author and the student, and the teacher can promote the dialogue between the student and the text. In short, the text interpretation in English reading teaching is to form the perception, understanding and evaluation of the text when the teacher is fully exposed to the text and in the process of reading the text repeatedly. Thereby, teachers can understand the teaching value of text materials reasonably, and set scientific and appropriate teaching goals based on academic conditions. Through analysis and understanding of the text, high school students will eventually develop their own unique understanding of the text. Teachers need to interpretate the types of texts selected in the textbooks based on their own perception.
2.2 Classification of Text Interpretation
Text interpretation is mainly divided into the interpretation of text content and text genre.
2.2.1 Text Content
Interpretation of text content mainly refers to the internal connection of students to the content of the text, such as the logical connection between phenomenon and essence, abstract and concrete, whole and part, main and secondary, cause and result, and understand the surface connotation of the text as a whole. This kind of internal connection is the structured knowledge of senior high school English text, which is the macro process of the author's combination and arrangement of languages according to themes, thoughts and emotions.
During the course of helping students to summarize the structure and sort out the content, English teachers can provide conditions and la
