Research on English Reading Teaching Based on CBI

Abstract

Content-based Instruction (CBI) is a teaching approach that combines the language teaching with the content teaching and has an effect on promoting learning efficiency. This paper firstly points out the problems of current English reading teaching, then expounds the concept and teaching models of CBI, and finally gives the English reading teaching reform approaches based on CBI to provide some references for the university English teachers. Current Situation of University English Reading Teaching Reading is an important means that modern human access the information and knowledge. The cultivation of English reading ability plays an important role in the cultivation of students in colleges and universities. It is the basis of writing, translation, and also affects the students' listening and speaking ability. Reading comprehension part always accounts for 40% of the score in the English examination. However, at present, the college English reading course always cannot meet the requirements of students' good command of English reading ability. On the purpose of teaching, teachers tend to focus on the purpose of improving students' vocabulary, language points and sentence patterns, such as the basic knowledge.The lack of the analysis of the whole article, the author's attitude to the careful study, the lack of dialectical thinking of the article, the lack of comparative reading of similar articles. This student only mastered some language points, became a pure language talent and cannot become a compound talent. In the teaching content, the choice of textbooks, although more classic, but also more backward, the article more than a few years ago or more than ten years ago, the interception of British and American newspapers, timeliness is poor, it is difficult to arouse the students interest. Teaching content while a unit a theme, seemingly orderly, but due to the number of each unit only two to three papers, the students learning content is scattered, fragmented. On the teaching mode, the traditional intensive reading teaching model, teachers in the classroom to explain vocabulary, grammar knowledge, students in the class notes. There are a lot of students because of the teaching mode is too rigid, do not listen to lectures, completely on the self-study. On the relationship between teaching and learning, due to the traditional mode of teaching teachers ignore the interaction with students, the classroom into the teachers one-man show. The teacher is the center of the whole teaching and interaction with students is very little.The relationship between teachers and students is like the relationship between two strangers.