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The Revelation of Cognitive Strategies to the Teaching of English Reading

Author: ShiRui
Tutor: LiChao
School: Jilin University
Course: Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
Keywords: cognitive strategies English reading comprehension higher vocation EFL students the teaching of English reading cognitive strategy training
CLC: H319
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2009
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Abstract


Reading is one of the five skills of English learning which learners must grasp.It is a necessary task for English teachers to improve their students’ English reading ability.Many scholars have ever analyzed the process of reading in the previous researches.Reading comprehension is not a mechanical and passive process but a complex,dynamic cognitive-psychological process.Therefore,it is necessary for students to employ some cognitive strategies in their English reading to help their comprehension based on their existing knowledge and experiences.O’Malley and Chamot have ever claimed that cognitive strategies operate directly on incoming information.After students get information from the reading material, they need to employ some cognitive strategies to understand it quickly and well.It is important for them to use cognitive strategies in their English reading consciously and flexibly.Higher vocational EFL(English as a Foreign Language) students have their own characteristics in the application of cognitive strategies.Generally speaking,they are not capable enough in English reading.Necessarily,teachers have duty to give instructions to them in their application of cognitive strategies so that their English reading ability can be improved.In this thesis,the author tries to use experimental method to study whether higher vocational EFL students employ cognitive strategies in their English reading and how cognitive strategies influence their English reading comprehension.In order to explore what cognitive strategies are used,what the functions of these strategies are,and what strategies are more suitable for higher vocational EFL students to use in their English reading,an investigation about cognitive strategies used by them is undertaken,as well as cognitive strategy training.The questionnaire is given to the subjects in order to investigate the current situation of the application of cognitive strategies in their English reading.Meanwhile,cognitive strategy training is also conducted to find out the functions of cognitive strategies in English reading and the appropriate strategies for them.A research is mainly conducted among a group of logistics major students of Jilin Business and Technology College.According to the research,we are aware how cognitive strategies can be used to promote students’ English reading comprehension and what strategies are more suitable for them to use.On the basis of the result of investigation and experiment,the author argues that when higher vocational EFL students share similar linguistic knowledge and experiences,the application of cognitive strategies is helpful to improve their English reading achievements,which is of great significance to the improvement of students’ reading comprehensive ability.Meanwhile,it also gives the revelation to the teaching of English reading in higher vocational colleges.Besides,the limitations of the investigation and the areas for further research in this research field are also proposed.

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