本文是一篇英语论文，笔者通过行动研究，作者获得并分析了相关数据，得出以下结论：（1）如何将衔接与连贯理论应用于英语阅读教学中，提高学生的语篇衔接意识？通过系统地介绍相关理论，从衔接和连贯的角度分析文章，培养学生的语篇衔接意识。帮助学生掌握衔接和连贯理论的基本知识至关重要。语篇衔接意识的培养必须建立在了解各种衔接手段和句子间意义的一致性的基础上。因此，教师们的首要任务是像作者在第一轮行动研究中所做的那样，介绍和解释衔接和连贯理论。
Chapter One Introduction
1.1 Background of the Research
Recently, the constructive reading questions replaced some multiple-choicequestions in the reading part of the English test paper in College Entrance Examinationbecause of the comprehensive reform .“Seven Options for Five Blanks”is a new type ofreading comprehension question, the explanation of which in the examination syllabusis "In a short passage of about 300 words, five sentences are extracted. The students arerequired to complete the passage based on the logical relationship and coherencebetween sentences. By selecting the best five sentences from the seven options given tofill in the corresponding blanks, students should make sure the supplemented passage ismeaningful in content and coherent in structure.” Much more attention need to be paidto the reading skills to get rid of the interfering choices. After all, one wrong choice maylead to two or even more mistakes and influence their overall English test scores.
However, in reading teaching, the teachers stressed on explaining the single words,phrases as well as their usage or analyzing the long and difficult sentences, whichmakes a complete article fragmented. Thus after teaching, the students may only get theliteral meaning of the discourse, they never attach importance to the cohesion andcoherence in the discourse. Most students admitted that they had much difficulty in“Seven Options for Five Blanks” reading comprehension. By studying the Cohesion andcoherence theory, students can master many cohesive devices, which make it easier tounderstand the cohesion between sentences. What’s more, they can infer the newinformation logically according to the given information, which is context. Aftermaking sure the article has a complete structure, logical and coherent meaning andmaking clear the writer’s intention, students can effectively improve the accuracy ofanswering “Seven Options for Five Blanks” questions.
1.2 The Purpose and Significance of the Research
In the author’s teaching experiences, the senior three students are eager to beadmitted to their ideal universities.Improving their English score means a lot to them.Although they have done a lot of “Seven Options for Five Blanks” readingcomprehension exercises, they still lack systematic strategies. Some students whoknows a little about the cohesive devices, simply pay attention to the conjunctions usedto express the transition or juxtaposition and the pronouns. They ignore whether thesentence meaning make sense.
This study aims to combine the context inference and cohesion theory to equipstudents with a more completed method to the”Seven Options for Five Blanks” reading,which also make the research different from others. Furthermore, the author hopes toinspire the teachers to develop students’ awareness of discourse cohesion and makestudents attach importance to the cohesion in the discourse. It’s advisable that theteachers could help the students cultivate their ability of inferring the missinginformation according to the context and make clear the author’s intention. Finally, if the theory is helpful, the students will pay more attention to applying the cohesion andcoherence theory to other type of reading comprehension, which I believe is of benefitto improve their overall English performance.
Chapter Two Literature Review
2.1 Definition and Requirements of “Seven Options for Five Blanks”Reading
“Seven Options for Five Blanks” reading is one of the reading test types in thecollege entrance examination. Since 2015 in Shandong Province, instead of usingShandong version, national version I has been employed in the English Gaokao, addingthe 10-marks “Seven Options for Five Blanks” reading into the reading comprehensionpart. However, in 2019, the score
