First, the necessity of setting up extensive reading course in senior one
Hu Chundong's English Teaching Method mentioned that English reading teaching in middle schools is the most potential field. ..... When students have basic reading ability, the cultivation of silent reading ability should be put on the agenda in time to realize the early teaching of silent reading. As we all know, "bilingual" teaching is in full swing in large, medium and small cities all over the country, and many places with conditions offer English classes from preschool (even kindergarten). This phenomenon shows that it is easier to form accurate pronunciation and intonation from an early age and cultivate interest in foreign language learning. By the same token, on the basis of doing a good job in intensive reading teaching, setting up extensive reading classes from grade one in senior high school is not only conducive to cultivating students' good reading psychology and reading habits, but also can widely mobilize the positive effects of non-intellectual factors such as students' interest, emotion, will and motivation, so that students can consciously and diligently adhere to in-class and extracurricular reading. In addition, reading from the first year of high school can create more favorable conditions for high school students to complete extracurricular reading of more than 300 thousand words stipulated in the new curriculum standard.
Second, the arrangement and material selection of extensive reading teaching
Extensive reading teaching must have a detailed and careful plan. From the beginning of the semester, we began to prepare for extensive reading teaching. The specific arrangements are as follows:
1. Plan. To do a good job in extensive reading teaching, we must work out a practical training plan according to the actual situation of students, from easy to difficult, step by step.
2. Material selection. The choice of reading materials directly affects the success or failure of extensive reading teaching. The selection of materials focuses on the following aspects: ① The content should be healthy. ② The difficulty of the language should be moderate. In order to achieve the purpose of training and cultivate reading interest, the materials should not be too easy or too difficult, and the rate of new words should be controlled within 3%. (3) The subject matter should be extensive, communicative and have the flavor of life of the times. Genres should be diversified, such as biographies, stories, fables, popular science sketches, news reports, social life, letters, notices, advertisements and various charts.
3. Class arrangement. One and a half hours a week, three hours after class is appropriate.
Third, extensive reading teaching practice and exploration
On the basis of full preparation, we boldly try extensive reading teaching. It is specifically divided into several steps:
Step 1: Introduction to reading. First of all, let students understand what extensive reading is (that is, extensive, large-scale and fast reading) and educate students to be psychologically prepared before reading. The second is to cultivate students' good reading psychology. At this stage, we mainly choose some easy-to-understand and interesting reading materials (mainly selected from some junior high school graduation entrance examination questions or simulation questions) to give students enough time to taste the sweetness and feel a little sense of accomplishment.
Step 2: Cultivate and improve reading ability. At this stage, the reading materials should have some comprehensive understanding topics such as reasoning, judgment, summary and induction, and the reading time should be properly controlled. The purpose is to cultivate students' reading skills in the following aspects: ① Direct understanding of written semantics without any form of silent reading ability. ② Take the meaning group (paragraph) as the unit, grasp the word string, and constantly expand the reading unit. ③ Grasp the topic sentence. (4) capture keywords or indicators. ⑤ Grasp the development of hierarchical structure, character activities and plots. ⑥ Guess new words according to the context. This step of training takes about 8 weeks.
Step 3: Time-limited reading training. From this stage on, teachers mainly train students in time-limited reading step by step to improve their reading skills and skills. In the selection of materials, the author mainly chooses the reading comprehension questions synchronized with the text units in the newspaper "Learning English", which saves a lot of time in the selection and compilation. However, teachers must browse these materials before students read them. If you find too many new words, you must copy some new words and phrases that are difficult to guess and seriously affect the understanding of the main idea of the article out of the blackboard according to the standard that the new word rate in the reading materials required by the syllabus should not exceed 3%, and write the Chinese meaning equivalent to the word (group). The number of articles that students are required to complete in a limited time should also be from less to more, step by step.
Four. Comments on extensive reading course
Teachers' comments on extensive reading should not be translated sentence by sentence, but should give up and focus on comments. Opinions should focus on the following aspects:
1. Analyze and summarize the theme or general idea of the article, and guide students to learn to find out the topic paragraphs or the topic sentences of each paragraph (usually at the beginning or end of the paragraph).
2. Guide students to analyze long and difficult sentences.
3. Guidance on problem-solving methods and ideas. Instruct students not only to understand the superficial meaning of the article, but also to dig the deep meaning of the article.
Fifth, the problems that should be paid attention to in the teaching of extensive reading in senior one.
1. Combine intensive reading with extensive reading. Teachers must be clear that the first stage of high school teaching should focus on cultivating students' basic English knowledge and skills, that is, intensive reading teaching is the first and extensive reading teaching is the second. Teachers must strive to cultivate students' reading ability on the premise of doing intensive reading teaching well.
2. The combination of in-class reading and extracurricular reading. The reading volume of extensive reading course is far from meeting the needs of students to develop their English reading ability. Successful extensive reading teaching should make students interested in independent, fast, extensive and holistic reading, and be able to read after class consciously for a long time.
3. Expand the knowledge of English cultural background. The richer a person's non-visual information, the larger the reading unit, the lower the difficulty, the faster the reading speed and the higher the understanding. Therefore, teachers must try their best to provide students with more cultural background knowledge to help students better understand the articles they read.
4. Care about the students who stay behind. Because the extensive reading course is offered earlier, there will always be some students who are difficult to adapt for a while because of various reasons such as foundation, learning method or learning attitude. Teachers must take the initiative to care for and help them, help them find the root of the problem, and encourage them to lay a good foundation.
References:
Hu Chundong, English Teaching Method, Higher Education Press, 1989, 10.
2. Chen Lihua: "On English Teaching in Senior High School", English Teaching and Research in Primary and Secondary Schools, No.4, 2002.
3. Hu Chundong and Dai Zhongxin, On English Reading, Guangxi Education Press, 1998.
(Author: Boluo Middle School, Huizhou City, Guangdong Province)