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Chapter One Introduction  

1.1Research Background and Purposes  
Reading,  which  is  one  of  the  four  important  language  skills  (listening,  speaking, reading  and  writing),  plays  the  predominant  role  in  the  EFL  teaching  and  learning  in China. The importance of it has already been widely accepted for it is the main means to acquire  knowledge  and  the  main  channel  to  absorb  written  information.  Most  of  the newspapers, magazines as well as literatures are published and read in English. What’s more,  90  percent  of  the  websites  are  written  in  English  and  most  of  the  software  is programmed in English. Therefore, for millions of Chinese English learners, reading is a basic skill and main channel of information input.  In addition, English is a compulsory subject in China and reading comprehension has  a  large  proportion  in  all  kinds  of  English  tests,  which  means  reading  competence directly  influences  students’  academic  achievement.  New  English  Curriculum  also emphasizes  the  importance  of  reading,  in  which,  the  descriptions  of  objectives  in reading for junior high graduates are as follows: a.  The  ability  to  infer  the  meaning  of  new  words  from  the  context  and  word formation rules, b.  The ability to understand the logical relationships between each sentence in a paragraph, c.  The ability to pick out the main ideas in texts and understand the plot in stories, predicting its development and possible endings, d.  The  ability  to  understand  reading  material  of  different  common  genres/text types, e.  The ability to use appropriate reading strategies to find information according to different reading purposes, f.  The  ability  to  use  dictionaries  and  other  reference  material  to  carry  out learning.
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1.2Significance of the Study
Reading competence determined students’ academic achievement. Unfortunately, it is  a  common  phenomenon  of  “high  input,  low  output”  in  reading  teaching.  Usually, students have so many problems while reading as follows:  a.  reading word by word, phrase by phrase, or line by line, usually at a very slow speed, b.  reading silently with moving the speech organs or reading with sound, c.  not enough vocabulary resulting in meeting new words as obstacles in reading, d.  consulting of new words in the dictionary while reading too much causing the lack of ability to guess the meaning of some new words by context or word-formatting, e.  silent reading with fingers pointing to the words being read, f.  constant regression slows down the reading speed, g.  the lack of the ability to skim or scan, h.  unfamiliarity with a diversity of topics, i. &nb本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。