the relationship between the reading ability of english major students and cultural background

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1、毕业论文(设计)TheRelationshipbetweentheReadingAbilityofEnglishMajorStudentsandCulturalBackground1.Introduction12.DefinitionsofCulture33.Someresearchersofthereading53.1Readingisacomplexprocess63.2Thereadingability73.2.1Readingspeed73.2.2Understanding83.2.3Readingendurance84.Readingmodels84.1Thebo

2、ttom-upmodel84.2Theinteractivemodel94.3Thetop-downmodel95.Experiment105.1Participants105.2Designsandmaterials105.3Procedures115.4Results125.5Thesignificanceofcultivatingculturalbackground136.Conclusion14References161.IntroductionAsEnglishmajorstudents,wehaveacquiredenoughvocabulariestoread

3、foreignarticles,newspapersandforeignworks.Butactuallywehavesomedifficultiesinunderstandingsomephrasesandsentencesofwhichvocabulariesarequitefamiliartous.Culturalbackgroundknowledgecan,toagreatextent,holduptheimprovementofEnglishreadingandbecomeanoticeableproblem.Presentationofculturalbackg

4、roundistheproposedsolutiontotheproblem.AndEnglishmajorstudents’readingabilityisnotonlyduetohoweasyordifficultatextisbutmoredependson24毕业论文(设计)thelevelofstudents’recallfromtheirculturalbackgroundknowledgeandfromthecontextualcluesaboutculturaloriginsaswellascollegestudentsandhighmiddlestuden

5、ts.(Carrell,1984;Carrell,1987;FloydandCarrell,1987).ThisthesisconcludesthestudyoftherelationshipbetweenthereadingabilityofEnglishmajorstudentsandculturalbackgroundandemphasizestheimportanceofculturalbackgroundknowledgeinEnglishreadingteaching.Meanwhile,usingculturalbackgroundknowledgeinstr

6、uctsthestudentsinEnglishreadingteaching,whichcanincreasetheteachingqualityandreadingefficiencyofEnglishmajorstudentsandnon-EnglishmajorstudentsinEnglishreadingteaching.Studentsmayexperiencedifficultyorlosetheirinterestswhilereadingsomecross-culturalmaterialsiftheirbackgroundknowledgehasnot

7、beenintroduced.Withwarm-upculturalhintsofastory,aquickfigureandreaders’expectationstothestorymayelicittheirinterestsandenhancetheirreadingcomprehension.Moreover,anumberofstudiesgaveevidencethatgivingstudents’cross-culturalliteraturecanraisestudents’generalcult