【作者】 赖丽芳；

【导师】 饶振辉；

【作者基本信息】 江西师范大学 ， 课程与教学论， 2011， 硕士

【摘要】 近年来,二语阅读领域的研究重心从研究学习者阅读策略的使用转移到研究元认知在阅读理解中的作用。在这一方面,研究者着重于研究读者在阅读过程中对阅读策略的意识程度即研究读者的元认知意识。对读者的元认知意识研究能帮助教师和研究人员更好地理解学习者的阅读理解过程,包括学习者对使用策略的识别以及他们是在什么情况下、如何使用策略的。尽管国外在这领域做了大量的研究,但对中国英语读者的元认知意识研究却很少,在国内也是如此。因此,当前的研究目的是调查中国非英语专业大学生在阅读英语学术类材料时的阅读策略元认知意识。本研究尝试完成以下四个研究任务:确认学生所报告使用阅读策略的类型和频率,检测不同性别和高低英语水平读者的元认知意识差异,以及揭示阅读策略的使用与英语水平之间的内在关系。来自江西师范大学的230名非英语专业二年级学生参加了此项调查。他们按要求填写了Mokhtari & Sheorey (2002)设计的SORS阅读策略问卷,报告了他们所使用的阅读策略和CET4成绩。然后将所有的数据输入SPSS 17.0并进行描述性、独立样本t检验及相关性数据分析。研究结果发现:第一,学生在总体阅读策略使用上处于中等水平;第二,在三大策略类型中,学生最喜欢使用的是问题解决性策略,其次是全球性策略和支持性策略;第三,女生的总体策略使用意识略高于男生,但策略使用意识显著比男生高的只表现在四个策略和全球性策略类上;第四,高水平的阅读者在总体阅读策略以及三大类策略使用上都明显高于低水平读者;最后,研究结果显示学生的策略使用与他们的语言水平密切相关。根据以上的几点发现,下面给出的几点建议或许能给教师和教育工作者一些启示以帮助学习者提高策略的使用意识。首先,提高学生阅读策略的元认知意识和策略使用的能力对培养高效能的读者起到至关重要的作用。鉴于此,英语教师应将阅读策略的训练融入到课堂教学中,引导学生在实际阅读中运用不同的策略。其次,改变教师和学生在教学中的传统角色有利于培养独立自主的学习者,成为积极、高效率的读者。第三,对于教师来说认识到学生的个体差异如性别、语言水平的差异以便因材施教、取长补短,这点很重要。第四,鉴于策略使用与语言水平间的密切联系,可以通过指导学生经常使用有效策略来提高语言水平,反过来语言水平的提高会促进学生更加频繁的使用这些有效的策略。总之,提高学生的策略意识和实际运用策略的频率是提高阅读能力和语言水平的前提。更多还原

【Abstract】 In recent years, research in second language reading has been transferred from the focus on learners’strategy use to focus on the role of metacognition in reading comprehension. In this field, researchers are examining readers’ awareness of strategies during the reading process - their metacognitive awareness. Studies on readers’metacognitive awareness provide teachers and researchers a better understanding of readers’comprehension process, including identifying the strategies they use and how and under what conditions they use those strategies. Despite a vast body of research in this area abroad, there are only a few investigations on metacognitive awareness of Chinese English readers. Also, in China, quite few studies conducted on readers’metacognitive awareness of reading strategies.Therefore, the present study aims to investigate non-English majors’metacognitive awareness about the use of reading strategies when reading academic materials. This research attempts to fulfill the following four tasks: to identify the type and frequency of perceived use of reading strategies students apply in reading tasks, to examine whether gender and proficiency will affect students’metacognitive awareness about reading strategies, and to discover the internal relationship between perceived reading strategies use and English proficiency. 230 second-year non-English major students in JiangXi Normal University participated in the investigation. They were asked to report the reading strategies they used and English proficiency by completing a questionnaire containing Survey of Reading Strategies (SORS) designed by Mokhtari and Sheorey (2002). Then all the data were inputted into the computer and analyzed by SPSS 17.0. Descriptive and independent sample t-test and correlational analysis have been carried out.The main findings are as follows: First, the participants show a medium awareness of the reading strategies. Second, among the three broad categories of reading strategies, students display a clear preference for Problem Solving Strategies, followed by Global Reading Strategies and Support Reading Strategies. Third, females show slight higher awareness in overall strategy use, but significant greater awareness only in four individual strategies and one Global Reading Strategy category than males. Fourth, the high-English-proficiency students show higher reported usage for overall reading strategies and all the three sub-categories than low-English-proficiency students. Finally, the results indicate there is a significant correlation between students’ reported strategy use and their English proficiency.In the light of the above findings, the following suggestions might provide teachers and educators with pedagogical implications for helping readers increase their awareness and use of reading strategies. First, increasing students’metacognitive awareness of reading strategies and improve their ability of strategy use play a vital role in helping students become competent readers. In view of this, L2 teachers in classroom should integrate reading strategy training into reading instructions and guide them to use different strategies in real reading situation. Second, changing teachers and learners’traditional roles played in teaching and learning is helpful to cultivate independent learners, to develop active and efficient readers. Furthermore, it is important for teachers to recognize individual differences like gender and proficiency differences so as to treat different students differently. Fourthly, based on the close correlation between strategy use and English proficiency, teachers should help their students improve language proficiency by encouraging them to make frequent use of effective strategies, which in turn would make students use these strategies more frequently. In all, increasing students’awareness of strategies and frequency of actual usage of reading strategies are the prerequisites of higher reading performance and language proficiency.更多还原