A Study on Extracurricular Literary Classics Reading in High School English Based on Core Literacy

Reading teaching is the core content of high school English teaching,and extracurricular literary classics reading is a supplement to in-class reading,which can deepen students’understanding and memorization of English-related knowledge,and cultivate students’core literacy.This paper outlines the problems in high school English reading teaching,analyzes the significance of extracurricular literary classics reading in high school English,and explores the teaching strategies of extracurricular literary classics reading in high school English based on core literacy,with a view to providing valuable reference information for teachers.

Teaching Design of the Junior High School English Reading for Deep Learning

English reading holds a pivotal position in junior high school English teaching,constituting an integral component of the entire educational process.Nowadays,it is imperative for English teachers to transcend the conventional,superficial reading instruction models and adopt a deep learning framework to fashion a profound reading classroom for students.This approach allows students to engage in inductive integration,application evaluation,and internalization and transfer,enabling them to delve into seemingly intricate and challenging texts,exploring them from multiple dimensions,including content,structure,and cultural implications.Ultimately,this fosters the development of students'comprehensive reading abilities and English core literacy.This paper,drawing from the perspective of deep learning and incorporating specific case studies,aims to devise a junior high school English reading instruction design that is both academically rigorous and emotionally engaging,with a focus on enhancing students'English core literacy and overall reading proficiency.

A Study on the Infiltration Methods of British and American Literature in High School English Reading Teaching

Reading is the key content of high school English teaching,which can improve students’mastery of words,grammar,and other knowledge,and can expand their horizons.British and American literature is the essence of British and American culture,and its application in high school English reading teaching can help improve students’English proficiency.This paper outlines the problems of high school English teaching,analyzes the role of British and American literature in high school English reading teaching,and explores the infiltration methods of British and American literature in high school English reading teaching,in order to provide references for teachers.

A Study on Senior High School Students＇ English Reading Barriers and Strategies

Referring to the questionnaire surveys and literature materials, this paper tries to discuss the causes of high school students＇ English reading barriers and its possible strategies to improve their English reading ability. This paper used a questionnaire survey to collect data with 188 grade one high school students as research subject. The result shows English reading barriers are mainly divided into two parts, language factors and non-language factors. Language factors include vocabulary barriers, grammar barriers, discourse barriers and culture background barriers. Non-language factors mainly include psychological factors, reading habits, reading interest and reading strategies. It is suggested that joint efforts from teachers and students are needed to solve the reading barriers. Teachers should help students increase vocabulary accumulation, strengthen grammar knowledge, develop their discourse comprehension skills and teach culture knowledge in class. Students need to overcome psychological factors, develop good reading habits, do a series of trainings on reading, give immediate feedbacks and sum up reading experiences.

The Construction of English Teaching Mode in Senior High School Based on OBE Theory

OBE theory focuses on students’learning outcomes and application ability,which is consistent with the requirements of the new curriculum standard.The paper attempts to apply OBE theory to innovate the construction of English classroom teaching mode in senior high schools from aspects of teaching aims,teaching activities,teaching assessments and application activities.Results show that the application of OBE in high schools is beneficial to the development of English teaching and students'learning.

The Correlation between Explicit Grammatical Knowledge,Implicit Grammatical Knowledge and Reading Comprehension Ability of Senior High School Students

The role of grammar in language teaching has always been the question that researchers debate.In recent years,grammar knowledge has been distinguished in the foreign language acquisition research,namely the implicit knowledge and the explicit knowledge(Dai Manchun 2005;Gu Qiyi 2005).As to the reaserch of implicit and explicit grammar knowledge as well as their measurement,it is easy to find that many scholars have studied the role of two different kinds of grammar knowledge in second language development.But the research on the role of implicit and explicit grammar knowledge in second language reading comprehension is too few,not to mention the research on the role of implicit and explicit grammar knowledge in English reading comprehension in the senior high school.The purpose of this study is to find the relationship between implicit and explicit grammatical knowledge and English reading comprehension ability of senior high school students.In addition,since the vocabulary is important to reading comprehension,this factor will also be considered in the study.

New Curriculum-Based English Vocabulary Teaching Approaches For Senior High School

There have been some problems in both vocabulary teaching for teachers and vocabulary learning for students.In light of the new curriculum,this paper summarizes specific presenting methods,memory strategies and ways to revise and consolidate in vocabulary teaching,which may help senior high school teachers in vocabulary teaching.

Preliminary Exploration on English Reading Strategy of Senior Middle School

Reading for most people is the main means to gain knowledge and the importance of it has already been widely accepted.Also,it has been regarded as the most necessary foreign language skill in most countries' teaching syllabus of colleges and middle schools,which requires the learners to master it badly.So how to explore teaching theory of foreign language reading has become an important task for study of foreign language teaching methods.In this study,some reading theories and reading strategies provided can be helpful to developing senior middle school students' linguistic ability and improving their reading efficiency.

On the Problems and Countermeasures of English Reading Teaching in High School

The English curriculum standard of ordinary high school(experiment)(the"standard"for short)has maken a hierarchical description of the reading skills,which has put forward higher requirements for the reading teaching.There are many drawbacks in the current English reading teaching,such as:the outdated teaching philosophy and methods,the changeless teaching models and the old reading materials,the disregardful of students’non-linguistic factors and so on.Therefore,some measures have to be taken to improve high school reading teaching,for example,interdisciplinaring and cultivating students’cultural awareness,broadening students’horizons,focusing on discourse teaching,enhancing students’ability in English thought and expression,reinforcing the training of reading skills,enriching students’means to analyze and solve problems and so on.

Exploring Senior High School Students’ English Academic Resilience in the Chinese Context

While academic resilience has been a hot topic in positive psychology,there is still scope for researchers to explore it in the field of applied linguistics.Drawing on the framework of L2(second language) learners’ resilience proposed by T.Y.Kim and Y.K.Kim(2017),the current study aims to examine senior high school students’ English academic resilience(EAR) and its relationship to their English achievement(EA).This study comprises a survey of 454 senior high school students.Follow-up interviews were carried out to triangulate the quantitative findings.The descriptive results demonstrate that students’ EAR is above the average,and its five subscales obtain medium to medium-higher levels due to the mean scores.It shows that students have good EAR that enables them to deal with academic adversity.The correlational analysis shows a low positive correlation between EAR and EA in general,and the subscales share medium to low correlations with students’ EA.EAR has a certain influence on EA,but the correlation may be influenced by other learner variables.Based on the results,suggestions on improving students’ EAR are provided.

A Study on the Application of the Pictographic Memorizing Method in Senior High School English Vocabulary Teaching

In this paper, upon the pictographic theory and the behaviorist theory, based on Xiang's(2007) pictographic memorizing method, the author designs the corresponding procedure of the senior high school English vocabulary teaching. This research results show that, the application of the pictographic memorizing method in senior high school English vocabulary teaching is feasible and the teaching effect is relatively good.

The Application of the Trial-Discovery Model to English Grammar Teaching in Senior High Schools

In senior high schools, great importance and attention are required to be attached to grammar teaching and learning. However, a majority of teachers either apply the traditional method or neglect grammar teaching and learning, both of which go against the ideas of the new curriculum of the high school. To solve the problem, based on the constructionist theory, Halliday＇s theory of register, and the trial-discovery model, the trial-discovery English grammar teaching model was constructed. To find out whether this teaching model is more effective than the traditional grammar teaching, an experimental study of the trial-discovery model in senior English grammar teaching is carried out. This study deals with the problem how we can improve the efficiency of grammar teaching, that is by increasing the students＇ learning interest and improving the accuracy in English writing. After the analysis of qualitative and quantitative data collected through questionnaires, interviews, and writing tests, the study reveals that the trial-discovery grammar teaching is more effective to stimulate the students＇ interest in learning grammar, and is more helpful to improve the accuracy and complexity in English writing than the traditional grammar teaching

A Study of＂Chinese Cultural Aphasia＂ in Senior High School English Teaching

Based on collecting and analyzing the former studies, through the questionnaire, test paper and interview, this paper makes an investigation about Chinese Cultural Aphasia, which aims at finding out whether it exists or not and the reasons that are responsible for the phenomenon. The result shows： （1） ＂Chinese Cultural Aphasia＂ phenomenon does exist in Senior High English teaching, and students＇ ability of expressing Chinese culture in English is worse than expected. （2） The reasons that are responsible for the phenomenon are in the following： Both students and teachers lack Chinese cultural consciousness, including that teachers＇ teaching idea is not correct and teaching method is single. What＇s more, in textbooks the proportion of Chinese culture content is too little. Accordingly, some proposals are put forward to solve the problem： （1） Students should pay attention to English expressions of Chinese culture. （2） Teachers should develop double culture ability, change attitude to English teaching, change the teaching method, use the textbooks neatly, increase the check of expressions related to Chinese culture. （3） Increase the proportion of Chinese culture in the textbooks

The Application of Schema Theory to English Reading Teaching in Junior High School

Reading is an effective means to cultivate junior high school students＇ comprehensive ability of using English and plays an important role in English study. Schema theory is a scientific reading theory advocated by modern teaching, and it regards the reading comprehension as a process that readers＇ knowledge and skills interact with the information in the reading material. In this paper, a questionnaire is conducted to reveal the fact that students lack schemata in reading and then a proposal that language schema, content schema, and form schema be integrated to activate students＇ existing schemata in the process of reading is put forward

The Cultivation of High School Students'Interest in English Reading

English learning involves listening,speaking,reading and writing,and each aspect of them can not be ignored.What matters in improving reading ability is to cultivate English reading interest of high school students at first.Interest is the best teacher,and also an indirect way to improve high school students’ability of English reading.As a high school student,I put forward some views and opinions on the cultivation of high school students'interest in English reading which are based on my own learning experience.Hoping to help the peers in English reading.

A Study of EFL Reading Teaching in Senior High Schools Based on Key Competencies of Subject

With the release of English Curriculum Standards for Senior High School,the cultivation of students’key competencies of English subject has become the major concern of many English teachers in senior high schools.As an important part of English teaching,reading teaching is supposed to take the responsibility of helping students form key competencies.In this study,the current situation of English reading teaching in senior high schools is investigated to find out whether English teachers fully and efficiently carry out the cultivation of key competencies of English subject in practical teaching.Data from questionnaires and interviews of teachers indicate practical problems exist in cultivating students’key competencies in English subject in senior high school,so teachers need to have a further understanding of them and take more innovative activities to help students develop their language competence,cultural disposition,thinking quality and learning ability.

Application of Mind Map in Senior High School English Teaching

Mind map is a simple and effective graphical thinking tool for expressing divergent thinking initiated by Tony Buzan in the 1970s. The author thinks that applying the mind map to the actual teaching of English in senior high school can not only help students to establish contacts, and promote English learning, but also develops students' divergent and creative thinking.

An Analysis on English Listening and Speaking Difficulties and Influential Factors for Senior High School Students

Nowadays English is more regarded as a"practical tool of communication"than the"knowledge to be tested".In this way,the ability of English listening and speaking will be more and more valued.But many people claim that Chinese students are learning"mute's English",which means that the average level of English listening and speaking abilities of Chinese students is still a bit low.So it is necessary to study the difficulties of high school students'listening and speaking in English and the influen-tial factors of it.This study is on the base of a research about the difficulties in English listening and speaking in a class of a key se-nior high school in Beijing.And there is a further study about the factors about the difficulties and the influential factors.This study aims to make students'needs for English in new situation be seen and to give a direction to English education.Through the study,findings can be drawn.For the difficulties for senior high school students in improving their abilities of English listening and speaking,the main difficulties are vocabulary,grammar,pronunciation,fears and culture.For the factors influencing their ability of English listening and speaking,the main factors are individual interest and effort and language environment.

Application of Task-based Approach to English Reading Comprehension in High School

Task-based approach is widely used at home and abroad in the field of foreign language teaching as a new teaching method, but application of TBA to English reading comprehension in high school is still in the theoretical analysis and practical exploration stage in our country. In this thesis, the background and the development of the task-based teaching method are explained briefly, and introduction to the application of task-based approach to English reading comprehension in high school is made comparatively detailed. High school English reading learning, in the TBA to a language learning, is the practice of "learn by doing" in the best way. Facts prove that the ultimate goal of any foreign language learning is to communicate.

A Survey of the Correlation between Language Anxiety and Senior High School Student's Oral English Performance

Language anxiety is a kind of apprehension occurs when student need to perform oral English.Many researchers agree that language anxiety is an important factor in English learning.This thesis is going to test 80 students from Bordertown high school,Hunan Province,to uncover the English learning situation of senior high school students,to survey the correlation between language anxiety and oral English performance,and to give inspiration for senior middle school English teaching.