关联理论对初中英语阅读教学的启示------推理游戏教学法的应用研究-enlightenment of relevance theory to junior high school english reading teaching - application research of reasoning game teaching method.docx

AcknowledgementMy deepest gratitude goes first and foremost to Professor Tao Manxing, my supervisor, for his constant encouragement and guidance. He has walked me through all the stages of this thesis. Without his consistent and illuminating instruction, this thesis would not have reached its present form.Second, I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to other professors and teachers at Gui Zhou Normal University who have instructed and helped me a lot in the past two years.Then, my thanks would go to my beloved family and my girlfriend for their loving considerations and great confidence in me all through these years.Besides, I also own my sincere gratitude to my friends, my roommates and my fellow classmates who offer me their helps and times in listening to me and helping me work out my problems during the difficult course of the thesis.And in the end, I am much appreciated these teachers who watch my thesis in busy time.Thank you very much for what you have done for me!IAbstractCultivating students English reading skills so as to improve their reading abilities has been a significant goal for the teachers to research thoroughly. Through researching literatures, the writer found relevance theory can play a significant role in reading. Based on relevance theory, reading comprehension is an ostensive-inferential cognitive procedure instead of a passive procedure. Inference ability plays a crucial role in reading comprehension. Lots of researches on relevance theory also show that there is a positive correlation between inference ability and reading ability. Relevance theory is instructive to the reading teaching.With the theoretical guidance of relevance theory, adopting which teaching model in English reading class becomes another question. The research shows that in recent years, the game teaching in junior high schools exhibits strong vitality and is welcomed by students. The playfulness of English teaching activities which advocates the spirit of games