Discussion on the Cultivation of High School Students' Self-Learning Capability in English Reading Comprehension Teaching

School of Foreign Languages
Sichuan University of Arts & Science

Discussion on the Cultivation of High School Students’ Self-learning Capability in English Reading Comprehension Teaching

by
Wang Pei

A Thesis
Presented to the School of Foreign Languages
In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements
For the Degree of B. A. in English
January 2011
Thesis Supervisor: Gu Yulan
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Discussion on the Cultivation of High School Students’ Self-learning Capability in English Reading Comprehension Teaching
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Abstract
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------------------------------------------------- It is not only a need of students’ further education but also a demand for students’ development when they step into the society, and an inevitable trend of modern education to change their study methods and develop their self-learning capability. Therefore, teachers must change the educational idea and pay more attention to train their students ' self-learning capability in English teaching, especially in reading comprehension. This paper will discuss the theoretical foundation and the strategy of how to train student 's self-learning capability and combines them into teaching practice. Then it will introduce the implementation plan of how to train middle school student 's self-learning capability in English teaching.
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Keywords: Reading Comprehension;English Teaching in High school;Self-learning Capability;Strategy

Acknowledgements

I would like to give my heartfelt thanks to many people in my academic studies over the past years. First of all, my deepest gratitude goes to my supervisor Ms Gu, for her kindness,

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