ABSTRACT: Nowadays, a mightly curriculum reform in compulsory education is being carried out in China. In our country, we have published the compulsory education “English Curriculum Standards” of 2011 edition; it clearly points out that “we should strengthen the guidance of learning strategies, train students' autonomous learning ability”（23-25）. We can see that the “English Curriculum Standards” reflects more humanistic, scientific and comprehensive. Since “English Curriculum Standard” advocates the task-based teaching, task-based teaching has been developed and applied in our country a lot. It emphasizes that students can learn by doing. That is means “student-oriented”. What’s more, let the students try their best to participate in classroom activities, so that students can improve their reading ability through thinking, cooperation and communication. In addition, we can easily find that the score of reading part is very high in the high school English papers. So, I think it is necessary to investigate the application of task based teaching in English Reading Teaching in senior high schools. And then we can find the problems, put forward proposals, self-examination. So as to promote the localization of task based teaching, explore the task based teaching model with Chinese characteristics, make students learn English more effectively and improve their reading abilities.

Key words: Task-based language teaching; application; English reading

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Abstract:

Introduction-1

1. On English Reading-3

2. Literature Review-3

2.1 On Task-based Language Teaching-3

2.1.1 The Meaning of Task-based Language Teaching-4

2.1.2 Background of Task-based Language Teaching-5

2.1.3 Significance and the Purpose of Task-based Language Teaching-6

2.2 Reading Learning Strategies-7

2.3 On Localized Task-based Language Teaching-8

3.Research on the Implementation of TBLT-9

3.1 The Purpose of the Research-9

3.2 The Objects of the Research-9

3.3 Research Methods-10

4.The Results of the Research-10

4.1 Survey Results-10

4.1.1 Students’ Survey Results-10

4.1.2 Teacher’s Survey Results-14

5. Profound Consideration-17

5.1 The Problems of Task-based Language Teaching of Reading-17

5.2 Misunderstanding of Task-based Language Teaching of Reading-17

6.1 The Awareness of Using the Localized TBLT-18

6.2 Summary and Conclusion-19

Bibliography-28

Acknowledgment-29