One of the major problems in the education sector is the reading skills of learners.Students enrolled in the Alternative Learning System(ALS)also experienced this scenario due to several circumstances.This study focus...One of the major problems in the education sector is the reading skills of learners.Students enrolled in the Alternative Learning System(ALS)also experienced this scenario due to several circumstances.This study focused on the improvement of reading comprehension skills of ALS learners by means of project RICE(Reading Intervention and Comprehension Enhancement)as well as the issues and challenges.A quasi-experimental design was utilized in this study which was participated by 54 learners,composed of 27 learners under the experimental group and 27 under the control group.The result revealed that the learners in the experimental group changed from frustration level to instructional level after the implementation of project RICE while the learners in the control group changed from instructional level to inde-pendent level,thereby signifying a significant difference and the effectiveness of the project.Additionally,issues with time and resources were often encountered by the learners.展开更多
Conjunction contributes to organizing and managing stretches of discourse, indicating the way the information is arranged. Successfully identifying these discourse markers is of great benefit to the reader to extract ...Conjunction contributes to organizing and managing stretches of discourse, indicating the way the information is arranged. Successfully identifying these discourse markers is of great benefit to the reader to extract the required information from what he/she reads, especially for the candidates who are tested for their reading abilities in a given time, for these markers give clues to the reader and make the perception easier and save a lot of time. To teach students to explore reading skills and read su...展开更多
IntroductionWhen I taught extensive reading, I found many students didn’t know how to read more effi-ciently. They had difficulties in understanding the text as a whole. They didn’t know how toinfer something from w...IntroductionWhen I taught extensive reading, I found many students didn’t know how to read more effi-ciently. They had difficulties in understanding the text as a whole. They didn’t know how toinfer something from what they had read. After reading a text, they could answer correctly only5--6 out of the ten questions following it. Questions like "What is the author’s attitude?""What is the tone of this article?"or "How has the author organised his essay?" were difficultfor them.This article aims to present some suggetions for developing student’s reading skills.展开更多
With the development and application of CALL in the rural areas,the traditional class has undergone great changes.The study examines the effect of CALL in teaching three levels of reading skills in a secondary school....With the development and application of CALL in the rural areas,the traditional class has undergone great changes.The study examines the effect of CALL in teaching three levels of reading skills in a secondary school.It involves two groups of Grade seven students received the same twenty reading lessons respectively.One is through a CALL-led method and another is informed by a teacher without the help of technology devices.Both qualitative and quantitative methods and procedures were employed through pretests and post-tests and interviews and classroom observation.The study reveals that CALL-led method is more efficient than the traditional way.展开更多
Primary education,guided by the cultivation of disciplinary core literacy,places a greater emphasis on students’autonomy and is committed to promoting students’all-round development.English reading is one of the mai...Primary education,guided by the cultivation of disciplinary core literacy,places a greater emphasis on students’autonomy and is committed to promoting students’all-round development.English reading is one of the main ways for students to acquire English knowledge.Although it is a fundamental learning point in English teaching,it poses challenges to English teaching in primary schools.This paper makes a detailed analysis of the current state of English reading education for primary school students from the perspective of core literacy,and then proposes effective strategies for improving students’English reading skills.展开更多
Introduction In teaching English teachers accept the view that reading skills are important. At present in China, however, the teaching of reading is, by and large, unsatisfactory. One reason for this, I think, is tha...Introduction In teaching English teachers accept the view that reading skills are important. At present in China, however, the teaching of reading is, by and large, unsatisfactory. One reason for this, I think, is that current textbooks lack appropriate tasks designed to teach reading skills. This paper will therefore first evaluate the textbook typically used, then look at ways of creating tasks and finally offer examples of tasks created from teaching in a Chinese senior middle school.展开更多
Ⅰ.Introduction The training of reading ability is very important in a comprehension lesson of English as asecond language teaching. It refers to many factors, some are inherent in the reading material(its linguistic ...Ⅰ.Introduction The training of reading ability is very important in a comprehension lesson of English as asecond language teaching. It refers to many factors, some are inherent in the reading material(its linguistic difficulties, its contents, its length, its types, etc.); some are present in the展开更多
Based on M.A.K.Halliday's systemic-functional grammar,the paper puts forward some ideas on how to develop reading skills,analyzing how the ideational,interpersonal and textual functions are reflected and their int...Based on M.A.K.Halliday's systemic-functional grammar,the paper puts forward some ideas on how to develop reading skills,analyzing how the ideational,interpersonal and textual functions are reflected and their interrelationship in reading materials,with an attempt to improve the reading ability.展开更多
文摘One of the major problems in the education sector is the reading skills of learners.Students enrolled in the Alternative Learning System(ALS)also experienced this scenario due to several circumstances.This study focused on the improvement of reading comprehension skills of ALS learners by means of project RICE(Reading Intervention and Comprehension Enhancement)as well as the issues and challenges.A quasi-experimental design was utilized in this study which was participated by 54 learners,composed of 27 learners under the experimental group and 27 under the control group.The result revealed that the learners in the experimental group changed from frustration level to instructional level after the implementation of project RICE while the learners in the control group changed from instructional level to inde-pendent level,thereby signifying a significant difference and the effectiveness of the project.Additionally,issues with time and resources were often encountered by the learners.
文摘Conjunction contributes to organizing and managing stretches of discourse, indicating the way the information is arranged. Successfully identifying these discourse markers is of great benefit to the reader to extract the required information from what he/she reads, especially for the candidates who are tested for their reading abilities in a given time, for these markers give clues to the reader and make the perception easier and save a lot of time. To teach students to explore reading skills and read su...
文摘IntroductionWhen I taught extensive reading, I found many students didn’t know how to read more effi-ciently. They had difficulties in understanding the text as a whole. They didn’t know how toinfer something from what they had read. After reading a text, they could answer correctly only5--6 out of the ten questions following it. Questions like "What is the author’s attitude?""What is the tone of this article?"or "How has the author organised his essay?" were difficultfor them.This article aims to present some suggetions for developing student’s reading skills.
文摘With the development and application of CALL in the rural areas,the traditional class has undergone great changes.The study examines the effect of CALL in teaching three levels of reading skills in a secondary school.It involves two groups of Grade seven students received the same twenty reading lessons respectively.One is through a CALL-led method and another is informed by a teacher without the help of technology devices.Both qualitative and quantitative methods and procedures were employed through pretests and post-tests and interviews and classroom observation.The study reveals that CALL-led method is more efficient than the traditional way.
文摘Primary education,guided by the cultivation of disciplinary core literacy,places a greater emphasis on students’autonomy and is committed to promoting students’all-round development.English reading is one of the main ways for students to acquire English knowledge.Although it is a fundamental learning point in English teaching,it poses challenges to English teaching in primary schools.This paper makes a detailed analysis of the current state of English reading education for primary school students from the perspective of core literacy,and then proposes effective strategies for improving students’English reading skills.
文摘Introduction In teaching English teachers accept the view that reading skills are important. At present in China, however, the teaching of reading is, by and large, unsatisfactory. One reason for this, I think, is that current textbooks lack appropriate tasks designed to teach reading skills. This paper will therefore first evaluate the textbook typically used, then look at ways of creating tasks and finally offer examples of tasks created from teaching in a Chinese senior middle school.
文摘Ⅰ.Introduction The training of reading ability is very important in a comprehension lesson of English as asecond language teaching. It refers to many factors, some are inherent in the reading material(its linguistic difficulties, its contents, its length, its types, etc.); some are present in the
文摘Based on M.A.K.Halliday's systemic-functional grammar,the paper puts forward some ideas on how to develop reading skills,analyzing how the ideational,interpersonal and textual functions are reflected and their interrelationship in reading materials,with an attempt to improve the reading ability.
