A Study in Senior High School Reading Teaching Based on Core Literacy

As a key language competence, reading exerts a foundation role for English learners.Reading teaching plays a significant role in language teaching as well.For traditional language teaching, reading teaching in senior high school focuses on the lecture-based, textbook-centered, and teacher-centered models, which diminishes students' autonomy and motivation for learning.It is, therefore, the newly published National Curriculum Standards that emphasizes core literacy, including language ability, cultural awareness, thinking quality, and learning ability.Core literacy as a teaching goal facilitates students' comprehensive and individual development and lays the base for lifelong learning.This thesis concentrates on a study in senior high school reading teaching based on core literacy.Firstly, it introduces definitions, theoretical background information, and elements of core literacy.Secondly, it mainly analyzes the concrete application from three aspects, such as teaching design, process, and reflection, concerning problems in senior high school reading teaching and requirements of National Curriculum Standards.And finally, this thesis proposes suggestions for senior high school reading teaching based on core literacy from the perspective of both teachers and students.This thesis concentrates on a study in senior high school reading teaching based on core literacy to explore effective ways to cultivate students' reading abilities and optimize learning efficiency to enhance the effectiveness of senior high school English teaching.