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Chapter One Introduction 

It is well known that reading plays an important role in college entrance examination, and  it  occupies  an  significant  position  in  foreign  language  teaching.  Schools  attach importance to reading, while the academic achievement of students is not optimistic. So, it is  urgently  required  to  look  for  a  new  way  to  improve  students’  reading  ability  in  senior high school. The author comes up with the application of Formative Assessment in senior high  school  English  reading  teaching.  This  chapter  has  three parts  :  research  background, research significance and purpose, and structure of the thesis. 

1.1 Background of the study 
Assessment  is  divided  into  summative  assessment  and  Formative  Assessment. Summative  assessment  focuses  on  the  result  of  study,  while  Formative  Assessment  lays emphasis  on  the  process  of  learning.  In  our  country,  summative  assessment  is  the  main assessment  in  senior  high  school  for  a  long  time,  and  Formative  Assessment  is  seldom applied  in  the  process  of  teaching  and  learning.  In  senior  high  school,  the  assessment  of summative  assessment  mainly  focuses  on  the  tests  in  the  middle  and  at  the  end  of  the learning.  Teachers  do  not  pay  attention  to  the  process  of  students’  learning  and  their attitude of study. Summative assessment cares about the grades that students achieve, and it  considers  grades  as  the  only  standard  to  judge  students’  ability.  There  are  several problems  about  summative  assessment  in  the  process  of  teaching.  It  overemphasizes  on selection, and ignores ability’s development of students. With a single evaluation index, it stresses the result of learning and ignores the investigation of learning process. Singularity of  the  assessment  leads  to  a  passive  position  for  students.  Students  blame  their  lack  of confidence on the assessment. Reading, considered as the basic skill of the four essential skills, holds an momentous position in English learning and teaching. For many students, reading is regarded as one of the important skills in language learning. Reading expresses ideas and is a way to transfer messages from the writer to the reader. Reading comprehension is ability by which we can get ideas from the writer, accumulate common sense, and make our life more colorful. It is generally recognized that reading makes up great proportion in the entrance examination of college.  So,  if  a  student  has  a  good  performance  in  reading,  i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。