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1、AnActionResearchonTryingtoImproveStudents’EnglishReadingAbilitybyInstructingStudentstoApplyReadingStrategiesinReadingPracticeContentIntroductionReadingStrategiesActionResearchResearchDesignResearchHypothesisandResearchQuestionsResearchInstrumentsResearchMethodsResearchProceduresReferencesAppe
2、ndixIntroductionReadingStrategiesDifferentdefinitionshavebeengiventoreadingstrategies.AccordingtoJohnson,KandHelen(2001),readingstrategiescanbedefinedasconsciousprocessthatreadersusetoovercomeproblemthattheycomeacrossinreading.Therefore,wecanconsiderreadingstrategiesasakindoftoolthatcanhelpre
3、aderstosmooththeirreadingprocessandgetbenefitswithlesseffort.Thus,instructionofreadingstrategiesmaybeausefulwaytohelpstudentsimprovetheirreadingability.ActionResearchSinceweallhaveknownaboutthebasicmeaningandsomecharacteristicsofactionresearch,hereIwillnotrestatethemindetails.Butinordertomake
4、theprocessofthisresearchmoreclear,abriefintroductionoftheprocessesofanactionresearchwillbediscussed.AccordingtoBailey,CurtisandNunan(2004:137),thewholeprocessofanactionincludes:(1)findingapuzzleoraproblem,(2)somepreliminaryinvestigationtogetthebasicdataforraisingahypothesisontheissue,(3)thede
5、signofaninterventionstrategy,(4)carryingoutthestrategyandcollectionoftheresults,(5)reportingontheoutcome,and(6)planningthenextcycle.6Inthepartofresearchprocedures,theabovestepswillbefollowwhenstatingthemajorprocedures.ReadingDesignResearchQuestionsAlthoughitmaybeatruththatastudentwhogothigher
6、scoreinreadingtestsistheonewhohashigherawarenessofapplyingreadingstrategies,itstillrequiresrigorousanalysiswhenitisdiscussedinanewsituation.Therefore,theresearchwillfirstlymakesureoftheproblemthat:(1)whetherit’struethatastudentwhogothigherscoreinreadingtestsistheonewhohashigherawarenessofappl
7、yingreadingstrategies.(2)whethertheinstructionandtrainingofreadingstrategiesareusefultoimprovingstudents’readingability.ResearchInstrumentsDuringtheactionresearch,questionnairesandteachinglogswillbeappliedtoobtainthedata.SPSS13.0willbeemploye