语篇分析在大学英语阅读教学中的启示英语论文

语篇分析在大学英语阅读教学中的启示

Acknowledgments

First of all, I would like to show my deepest gratitude to my supervisor, a respectable, responsible and resourceful scholar, who has provided me with valuable guidance in every stage of the writing of this thesis. Without his/her enlightening instruction, impressive kindness and patience, I could not have completed my thesis. The keen and vigorous academic observation enlightens me not only in this thesis but also in my future study. I shall also extend my thanks to my parents for all their kindness and help. I would also like to thank all my teachers who have helped me to develop the fundamental and essential academic competence. My sincere appreciation also goes to the teachers and students from my university, who participate in this study with great cooperation. At last, I’d like to thank all my friends, especially my lovely roommates, for their encouragement and support.

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宿州学院外国语学院2015届本科毕业论文

Abstract

In China’s College English teaching, the traditional English reading teaching method still has a profound impact. This teaching method overemphasizes the form of language, and can't effectively cultivate students' reading ability. Discourse analysis is a method of discourse analysis. It shows the relationship between sentences and sentences through linguistic analysis, especially the relationship between sentences and paragraphs, aiming at highlighting the coherence hidden in language. The reading teaching is always the focus in our English teaching, improve students' reading ability is one of the main goals of College English teaching, so English reading teaching has been paid more attention, and both teachers and students have made great efforts, the result is still not satisfactory, the time-consuming and low income "results greatly troubled we. There are many reasons why English reading teaching is not ideal at present, of which the teaching method is the main cause of the phenomenon. In the traditional teaching process, teachers mainly use grammar translation and word sentence interpretation, which makes students difficult to grasp the content from the overall structure of the article. This paper gives a comprehensive introduction to the theory of reading and discourse analysis, and focuses on how to make use of cohesion and coherence, theme and rheme theory to help students understand and master the structure and meaning of articles.

Key words: Discourse analysis; reading teaching methods; College English

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