文档介绍：Introduction
As we all know, reading plays an important role in language learning. We can obtain knowledge, get information, and take pleasure from reading. But a certain number of people find it difficult to read some materials, especially for the students in the suburban junior middle schools. They are unable to read effectively, and frequently fail prehend the texts. On the one hand, the students have poor English knowledge, vocabulary and improper reading habits, on the other hand, many teachers, nowadays, deal with the text sentence by sentence and paragraph by paragraph, the students only learn the knowledge of English. As a result, the training of the students’ prehensive abilities is often neglected and a reading class generally es teacher-centered and boring. Chinese typical learning style poses great difficulties for students to turn their attention from language knowledge to language skills, especially dealing with the problems of using language they have learned in real life. Then how to solve these problems?
New English Curriculum Standard (2001:15), issued by the Ministry of Education, states that “Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT) should be advocated”. It requires that “teachers should avoid using simple teaching methods to teach language knowledge, they need to adopt task-based language teaching as possible as they can”.
That is to say, advocating application of TBLT to English language teaching can change the traditional teacher-centered teaching model into the student-centered and teacher-guided teaching model. Its purpose is to cultivate the students’ learning and research abilities, arousing the students’ initiative in learning and stimulating the students’ learning motivation.
As to the application of TBLT to English Language teaching in China, many scholars have written articles about it. Researchers or scholars such as Yuan Changhuan(2002), Jiang Qiuyang(2004), Yuan Surong&Fang Le(2004) and Liu Xingmin(2007), etc. have made some achieve