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1、中国某某某某学校学生毕业设计(论文)题 目： 论提高大学英语阅读技巧的策略姓 名 ： 0000000000000班级、学号 ： 00000000000000000系 (部) ： 经济管理系 专 业 ： 商务英语 指导教师 ： 00000000000 开题时间： 2009-4-10 完成时间： 2009-11-2 2009 年 11 月 2 日目 录毕业设计任务书1毕业设计成绩评定表2答辩申请书3-4正文5-6答辩委员会表决意见7答辩过程记录表8课 题 论提高大学英语阅读技巧的策略 1. 一、课题(论文)提纲0.引言1大学英语阅读中存在的四个问题1.1.陌生的单词常常阻碍我们的阅读1.2.紧凑的

2、时间约束我们的答题能力1.3.不能在有效的时间内获得信息1.4在阅读过程中反复性的回看2.提高大学英语阅读的方法2.1.扩充词汇量 2.2.提升阅读理解的速度2.3.增加阅读理解的技巧2.4.带着兴趣去阅读3大学英语阅读过程中应注意的问题3.1.要集中精力在你所阅读的文章上3.2.调整心理去抓住阅读节奏3.3在阅读中的一些坏习惯3.4.更有效的回收信息4总结二、内容摘要根据教学提纲，提高阅读技巧是大学英语教学中的一个重要目的。我们可以推知阅读在听，说，读，写的技巧中占据了非常重要的地位。阅读不仅仅能帮助我们通过大学英语4，6级，而且能让我们更好的适应当前的社会。我们都知道，在知识激增的社会里，

3、我们必须在最少的时间里获得最有效的信息。然而，大部分的信息的获得都是来自阅读，这也是提高我们阅读能力的尖锋时刻。本文从四个方面阐述了我们应该高度重视改善我们的阅读理解技巧。1. 三、参考文献1.Feng Yado 1.Feng Yadong.Reading skill in the foreign language China Esperanto Press，19972.Dai Weidong.Reading course 3 Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press，2008 3.Gu Riguo, Neville Grant, Active Eng

4、lish Enrichment reading Foreign Language Teaching and Research Society publication，20004.Gong Longsheng.A comprehensive reading course in international trade and economics Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press，19985.Wang Mei.College English reading comprehension Foreign Language Teaching and Res

5、earch Society publication，19906.范婉芳，多维思考全方位记忆谈大学英语词汇教学.中国世界语出版社，19977.吕凤芳，英语阅读技巧上海外语教育出版, 19988.李刚，英语阅读理解能力培养的探索。吕文斌 于德全：外语教学与研究论文集（续）中国世界语出版社，1997On Strategies of Improving College English Reading Skills000000AbstractAccording to the teaching outline, to improve reading skill is one of the importan

6、t purposes in college English teaching. And from which we can infer that reading takes up an extremely important position among such skills as listening, speaking，reading and writing. Reading is not only important for passing College English Test 4 and 6, but also important for adapting the present

7、society efficiently. As we all know, we are in a society full of knowledge explosion, we have to get most of useful information with least time. However, information is obtained from reading. So it is high time that we improved our reading comprehension. This article is going to talk about four aspe

8、cts we should pay great attention to on the purpose of improving our reading comprehension skill.KEY WORDSreading comprehension ; improvement； ability； prediction0. IntroductionReading is a thinking process. We need to be able to read actively and thoughtfully so that we can select the main idea of

9、a passage, understand a principle, and follow a sequence of events, an argument, or a line of reasoning. Further more, in order to get the main points, we should select relevant details to support the main idea, and recognize the relationship of ideas in the passage. In addition, we can also get som

10、ething useful from the materials we have read. From what I have presented, it is not difficult to see that how important the role of reading plays in our daily life.1. Four major problems in College English ReadingAs a student, reading is such a thing that we cant be more familiar, especially for co

11、llege student as English majors. We have just finished an initial test in our career of learning EnglishCET4, in which college reading comprehension is one of the crucial parts. It commands that we should accomplish 3 to 4 passages within 25 minutes. There are 4 major problems in my reading comprehe

12、nsion and maybe in most college students.1.1 Strange words are always being the obstacle when we are reading.Words and expressions which the student does not know obviously present a problem. Some college students are so disturbed by unfamiliar vocabulary that their comprehension of the whole passag

13、e suffers. Once seeing them, we have no mood in reading any more. In this case, its hard for us to catch the main idea.1.2 Tight time constraints to our ability to answer.In examination, I always read the paragraph word by word in order to know the meaning of each word. When I get the main point, th

14、ere is no time for me to answer the question. “Given enough time, I can get all the correct answers.” Which is often said by us students presents it vividly.1.3 Useful information cannot be got within a limited time.Almost all of us have the hobbit of reading all the passages sentence by sentence. N

15、ot until having comprehended completely do we start to see and do the exercises behind.1.4 Looking back to the paragraphs or sentences is a commonplace.The average college student reading at 250 words per minute regress or rereads about 20 times per page. Rereading words and phrases is a habit which

16、 will slow our reading speed down to a snails space. Maybe it because of low concentration or maybe its complicated structure or maybe it is just a bad habit, etc.2. Ways of improving College English ComprehensionAs we all know, vocabulary to learning is what brick to building house. Learning Englis

17、h is not an exception of this rule. Strange words stop us from reading efficiently and do bad effect on our passion to go on reading. On the contrast, wealthy vocabulary is the basis of listening clearly, speaking fluently and writing smoothly. A bound of scientific investigations prove that the lac

18、k of vocabulary is the key cause of difficulty in English studying. In a word, vocabulary plays an important role in college reading comprehension. It relates directly to the reading speed and the reading accuracy. There are many ways of enlarging it. Interests, associations and calcifications are g

19、ood choices. Perhaps the most impressive reason for vocabulary development is that a good vocabulary and success are synonymous.1).A good vocabulary can be an economic advantage. An institution for testing peoples attitudes, the Human Engineering Laboratory, found that a good vocabulary is the only

20、trait common to successful people. The Lab has found that the highest scores on vocabulary tests have been made by people getting the highest pay.2). A good vocabulary also means academic success. There is a direct link between verbal ability and scores on an intelligence or achievement test. It may

21、 be unfair for someones intelligence to be judged on the basis of a verbal test. But students are still being judged this way. Many teachers think that the results of an IQ test and a vocabulary test will be about the same. And both predict success. According to A Guide Book for the Teaching of Read

22、ing, in a vocabulary test with a score of 100, students who score 65-70 and up will likely be successful in college. Those scoring from 35 to 70 will probably have moderate success and will complete college. Those in the lowest third will probably be ones who are constantly in trouble academically,

23、or who leave the campus before receiving a degree. The same book also notes, however, that if “these low-scoring students apply themselves to improving their vocabulary, they will have less and less trouble in their college work.2.2 Improving Reading RateAfter solving the most basic and the hardest

24、problem, there comes another questionthe reading speed or the reading rate, which is measured in words per minute (WPM). It is the main standard of ones reading level. Both the teaching outline for English majors and nonEnglish majors make specific requirements on reading speed for students in every

25、 degree. For example, CET4 requires students reading at the speed of 80 to 100 WPM, reaching the accuracy of 70%. So, when training the comprehension and the accuracy of reading, we should also take great notice of improving our reading speed. Just as I have said, it is important to exert all our ab

26、ilities during a limited time. Some people think that reading at a high speed affects the accuracy of the comprehension for the text. Actually, it is a misunderstanding caused by the traditional reading teaching schemes, which valued the reading accuracy overly and ignore the improvement of reading

27、speed. The accomplishment of a reading task within an appropriate time frame and with appropriate comprehension, which means reading efficiency, is what we are perusing now. The fast readers are the people who can read in such a level. The improvement of reading speed is not an easy thing to do. As

28、the proverb says: “practice makes perfect”, critical trainings under scientific instructions are necessary.Speed reading without adequate or appropriate comprehension is not what we want. Neither do taking ten hours to read a twenty page chapter. To get the useful information and the main idea of th

29、e passage with least time, it is necessary to develop several techniques that will help with comprehension and read faster.1). Reading the passage according to your purpose. If you want to seize the main idea of the passage, you can read several sentences at the beginning or at the end of the articl

30、e. If you are looking for the answers of some specific questions, you can first scanning the text and find the special lines relating to your questions and then read them intensively, etc. 2). Reading different materials with suitable ways. Do you read the newspaper in the same way and the same spee

31、d that you read a text book? Do you read poetry in the same way and at the same speed that you read an article in a magazine? If you say yes, unfortunately, that means you are a poor reader. The ability to adjust the reading rate and methods to suit the type of material to be read and the purpose fo

32、r reading or reading flexibility is very important. Not only for the improvement of reading speed, but also for the improvement of reading skills. With this ability, we can save a lot of time that may be wasted on unimportant information. These techniques need practicing whenever we are reading.3).

33、Developing a wider eye-span. This will help you read more than one word than one word at a glance. Since written material is less meaningful if read word by word, this will help you learn to read by phrases or through units. 4).The ability of prediction.Prediction begins from the moment you read the

34、 title and from expectations of what the book is likely to contain. Even if the predictions are contradicted, they are useful because they have started you thinking about the topic and made you actively involved.If you formulate your predictions as questions which you think the text many answer, you

35、 are preparing yourself to read for a purpose: to see which of your questions are in fact dealt with and what answers are offered. If your reading is more purposeful you are likely to understand better.Naturally your predictions will not always correct. This does not matter at all as long as you rec

36、ognize when they are wrong, and why. In fact mistaken predictions can tell you the sources of misunderstanding and help you to avoid certain false assumptions.Prediction is possible at a number of levels. From the title of a book you can know the topic and possibly something about the treatment. Fro

37、m the beginning of a sentence, you can often predict how the sentence will end. Between these extremes, you can what will happen next in a story, or how a writer will present his argument, or what methods will be used to test a hypothesis.2.3 Increasing college reading skills Reading skills are very

38、 important. Experts estimate that it is possible for any normal adult English speaker to read 1,000 words a minute (and more), with special training. Yet most students read only 300 words per minute. The following principles might be helpful for foreign students who wish to increase reading skill:1)

39、.Always read faster than is comfortable. The faster your normal rate of reading becomes, the better your understanding will be. 2).While reading do not allow yourself to regress, but keep reading ahead in every sentence, even when you come across a new world. If some word, term, or phrase has cloude

40、d your understanding, you should reread it only after you have read the entire paragraph through once. 3). Read selectively. As you read, focus your attention on the nouns, pronouns, and verbs, since these are the words that give meaning to what you have read. In effect, you should really read nouns

41、, pronouns, and verbs and merely see the rest of the words in the sentence. Because the reading assignments in most college courses are very long, students should plan to read every day. If, however, they find that they cannot complete all of the assigned readings in the beginning, they should not p

42、anic. Instead, they should ask their classmates how much they are reading and attempt to learn from them what to read first and attempt to learn from them what to read first and what to postpone until a later date.2.4 Taking interest in what you are reading. In spite of all these aspects mentioned a

43、bove, there is one thing more that we should pay great attention to. That is the reading habit. Maybe youre asked to read something far out of your boundaries of interest, which often happens in schools. And yet, if you are not intrigued or absorbed by text, if you are not searching for an answer, y

44、ou will simply tune out just as you would while watching a boring movie. Thus it is imperative that you learn how to get fully involved in what you are reading. As we all know, habit is not so easy for us to change once it have come into being, all we need to do is paying attention to them from now

45、on at every time we are reading. As is known to all, good habits do us a lot of goods. So do good reading habits.3. The problems we should pay attention to College English Comprehension3.1 Focusing on what you are readingFor the time when you decide to hold that material in front of you, your mind m

46、ust be free of distractions. Anything else that is causing your mind to give attention to it is drawing from your ability to concentrate and thus makes comprehending what you read a struggle. A focused mind is the primary key to good comprehension. 3.2. Adjusting psychology to grasp the rhythm of re

47、adingJust as an athlete will loosen up and practice a bit before the big event. This helps you to get in the right rhythm before reading. Being in the right state is critical.3.3. Bad habits in reading.First is reading word by word, taking a single word as a unit rather than a sentence or a paragraph, which is also called eye span. It can be expressed as vocalization or sub vocalization. This kind of habit does great harm to reading speed and reading efficiency. For example, when we are doing the listening comprehension, we need to finish reading the questions and an