중학생의 효과적인 영어 독해력 향상 방안

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to suggest efficient strategies to the teaching of English reading comprehension using an interactive reading model in the Korean middle school. In terms of an interactive reading model, reading is considered as the interaction of the text and the reader, therefore the reader is an active perceiver of the graphic symbols and a progressive constructor of meaning using a wide range of linguistic and background knowledge. To improve English reading comprehension, it is very important to teach skills and strategies in the middle school. Students who once developed with the reading skills and strategies can understand books without teacher's help. Because this study aims to propose how to learn and teach effective reading skills and to present a lesson plan for the reading part of a middle school textbook, in the first chapter, the situation of English teaching and learning in Korea, the necessity and purpose of this study are introduced. The second chapter describes three reading models(bottom-up, top-down, and interactive) and the study of schema. In the third chapter, various types of useful exercises are also presented to help English teachers apply them to teaching reading strategies for the effective English reading comprehension. As the main part of this study, a lesson plan for the reading part of a textbook is designed. This lesson plan was based on the interactive reading model. In the pre-reading activities, students are urged to activate their background knowledge and to predict what the text is about. In the while-reading activities, they are encouraged to develop reading strategies. In the after-reading activities, learners treat the topic and main idea, vocabulary study, 'information-gap', grammatical structures and writing exercise. Finally, when we plan a lesson for a reading, we should consider not only students' language abilities but also other factors such as motivation, style, confidence, schematic knowledge. The findings of this study indicate that the learners also need to be systematically trained to have more effective reading strategies that will help the learners have better reading comprehension ability.