Primary school English teaching focuses on the basic understanding, to cultivate students' interest in learning to develop the ability of self-learning. With the education reform, the primary school English teachi...Primary school English teaching focuses on the basic understanding, to cultivate students' interest in learning to develop the ability of self-learning. With the education reform, the primary school English teaching should be reflected in the other comprehensive abilities besides "listening, speaking, reading and writing". Cultivate students to have a good sense of language and have the ability to self-study. In primary school English teaching, reading teaching because of its many content, mixed with rare words, the test of students' comprehensive context sense of language ability, leads to students have a certain difficulty in learning. Coincidentally, reading teaching is the core of cultivating students' comprehensive English ability. Teachers must pay attention to the effective implementation of reading teaching, and should teach students the idea of reading English articles. The common problems in primary school English reading teaching, and analyze how to improve the teaching quality of primary school English reading.展开更多
With the arrival of the new millennium,the demand fortalented people with both professional knowledge and excellentlanguage abilities is getting stronger and stronger.For business major students,reading is paramount i...With the arrival of the new millennium,the demand fortalented people with both professional knowledge and excellentlanguage abilities is getting stronger and stronger.For business major students,reading is paramount inBusiness English teaching and learning.And their reading abilityis often assessed by a text of reading comprehension.However,from my experience as a college teacher ofBusiness English,I have noticed some problems among studentswho have little knowledge of business.They seem to readBusiness English materials at a slower rate and with lessunderstanding than general English materials.Then there is the question:is Business English reading"simply"a problem of language competence? Or are there anyother more important factors?This article is an investigation into the effect of backgroundknowledge on Business English reading comprehension.Thestudy attempts to assess to what extent L2 readers might beaffected because of their lack of a background schematapresupposed by the author by comparing the test results of twopassages comparable in language lightness or heaviness.Morecomparable passages like these can be used in investigating intothe rival effects of background knowledge and linguisticcompetence.The implications of comprehension theory for L2pedagogy are discussed and suggestions for Business Englishteaching is put forward.展开更多
文摘Primary school English teaching focuses on the basic understanding, to cultivate students' interest in learning to develop the ability of self-learning. With the education reform, the primary school English teaching should be reflected in the other comprehensive abilities besides "listening, speaking, reading and writing". Cultivate students to have a good sense of language and have the ability to self-study. In primary school English teaching, reading teaching because of its many content, mixed with rare words, the test of students' comprehensive context sense of language ability, leads to students have a certain difficulty in learning. Coincidentally, reading teaching is the core of cultivating students' comprehensive English ability. Teachers must pay attention to the effective implementation of reading teaching, and should teach students the idea of reading English articles. The common problems in primary school English reading teaching, and analyze how to improve the teaching quality of primary school English reading.
文摘With the arrival of the new millennium,the demand fortalented people with both professional knowledge and excellentlanguage abilities is getting stronger and stronger.For business major students,reading is paramount inBusiness English teaching and learning.And their reading abilityis often assessed by a text of reading comprehension.However,from my experience as a college teacher ofBusiness English,I have noticed some problems among studentswho have little knowledge of business.They seem to readBusiness English materials at a slower rate and with lessunderstanding than general English materials.Then there is the question:is Business English reading"simply"a problem of language competence? Or are there anyother more important factors?This article is an investigation into the effect of backgroundknowledge on Business English reading comprehension.Thestudy attempts to assess to what extent L2 readers might beaffected because of their lack of a background schematapresupposed by the author by comparing the test results of twopassages comparable in language lightness or heaviness.Morecomparable passages like these can be used in investigating intothe rival effects of background knowledge and linguisticcompetence.The implications of comprehension theory for L2pedagogy are discussed and suggestions for Business Englishteaching is put forward.
