Abstract

As we all know, reading plays an important role in our English class. If a teacher explains a text without analyzing its cohesion, information flow, theme, writing intention, and the context involved, it is unlikely for his students to have a full understanding to the text. 

  Recent years, with the deepening of curriculum reform, English reading ability has been placed in a prominent position. The English teaching asks for a higher requirement for students’ English reading ability and skills under the new circumstances. Although some English teachers have realized this kind of change, and they are also trying to make some differences in it, they still have confusions about it. The original reason is that they still try to do some fine-tuning based on traditional teaching methods rather than make a complete breakthrough.

  This paper focuses on English reading, and manage to apply the discourse analysis into it. First of all, this paper puts forward the importance of English reading, and then sums up the advantages and disadvantages of different teaching methods. It also emphasizes the theory of discourse analysis. And then the author puts forward a reasonable teaching mode based on discourse analysis, giving an example to it. At last, through the analysis to a reading sample, the paper explains the application of discourse analysis in specific, aiming to give a valuable teaching mode for discourse analysis-based teaching.

Key Words: English reading; Discourse analysis; Context

Contents

Abstract

摘要

1  Introduction-1

1.1 Background of the Study-1

1.2 Purpose of the Study-2

1.3 Layouts-2

2  Literature review-3

2.1 The Task-based Language Teaching(TBLT) Used in English Reading Teaching-3

2.1.1 The Definition of TBLT-3

2.1.2 The Advantages of TBLT Used in English Reading Teaching-4

2.1.3 The Limitations of TBLT English Used in English Reading Teaching-4

2.2 The Situational Teaching Method Used in English Reading Teaching-5

2.2.1 The Definition of Situational Teaching Method-5

2.2.2 The Advantages of Situational Teaching Method Used in English Reading   Teaching-6

2.2.3 The Limitations of Situational Teaching Method Used in English Reading  Teaching-6

2.3 Discourse Analysis in English Reading Teaching-7

3  Discourse Analysis-8

3.1 Discourse and Discourse Analysis-8

3.2 The Brief History of Discourse Analysis-9

 3.3 Contents of Discourse Analysis-10

  3.3.1 Context-10

  3.3.2 Cohesion-12

  3.3.3 Textual Patterns-16

4  Application of Discourse Analysis into Reading Teaching-20

4.1 Using Context to Instruct Reading Teaching-20

4.2 Using Cohesion to Instruct Reading Teaching-21

4.3 Using Textual Patterns to Instruct Reading Teaching-22

5  Conclusion-24

5.1 Major Findings-24

5.2 Limitations and Suggestions-24

Bibliography-26

Appendix-28

Acknowledgments-32