A Research Design on Reading Strategies

Wang Yanbo(Daqing Shiyan High School)

Abstract

Students' reading time is limited in class in high school English teaching, but the scores take up a big proportion in college entrance examination. In addition, parts of Reading Practice are added in the elective books of New Standard English for Senior High and have the features of long passages and many new words, increasing students' reading difficulties, As an English teacher in high school, the author deeply understands the students' confusion and thus conducts this research.

Keywords

Reading strategies; Research design; English language teaching

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.26549/jetm.v1i1.293