关联理论框架下的高职英语阅读课教学研究——以太原大学外语师范学院为例-research on english reading teaching in higher vocational colleges under the framework of relevance theory - taking the foreign language teachers college of taiyuan university as an examp.docx

AbstractFor many years, researchers from abroad and home have researched about English reading teaching from different perspectives. And Relevance Theory has been introduced to guide reading teaching. It is believed that reading activity is actually an inferential communicative activity in which readers have to seek for relevance constantly, while the readers cognitive environment is very critical for them to seek for the optimal relevance.In this thesis, the author investigated her own teaching and found there are some obstacles hamper the improvement of students’ reading ability. For instance, the limitation of vocabulary, the lack of the background knowledge.In order to solve the problems above, the author designed this research, aiming at improving the students’ reading comprehension. This thesis tries to answer the following questions:Is it effective in improving the students reading comprehension by using relevance theory in English teaching?Whats the attitude of the students toward the new teaching model?Are there any changes with the students reading strategies?In the research, the author chose the students who come from Foreign Language Normal School of Taiyuan University as participants. The research lasted for about 16 weeks and used some research methods like pre-test, post-test, interview and questionnaire. Before the research, the author conducted a pre-test to ensure the two classes chosen have the similar level. Then the author used the relevance theory in the experimental class during the reading teaching, and to the control class, the author used the traditional method. After the experiment, A post-test was conducted to test whether the relevance theory is effective in improving the reading comprehension. At last, the author used the SPSS16.0 to analysis the data.Finally, according to the experiment analysis, the research achieves a conclusion that the students in the experimental class improved much more than the students in the control class. An