Author(s)

Qiu Wenzhuo ¹, Gu Huiping ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Linyi University, Linyi, Shandong, 276000, China

Corresponding Author

Qiu Wenzhuo

ABSTRACT

English reading teaching is one of the ways to cultivate students' advanced thinking ability. Thematic meaning inquiry plays an important role in English reading teaching. In this study, teachers of various grades from four high schools in Linyi City, Shandong Province are chosen to be the research objects, and a questionnaire survey is adopted to understand the implementation status of senior English reading teaching based on thematic meaning. It finds that most high school English teachers are vague about the high school English teaching model based on thematic meaning inquiry. In view of this, the paper provides English teachers with suggestions for designing English reading teaching based on thematic meaning inquiry, with a view to improve English teachers' awareness of thematic meaning inquiry.

KEYWORDS

Thematic meaning inquiry; English reading teaching; teaching design

CITE THIS PAPER

Qiu Wenzhuo, Gu Huiping, A Study on Senior English Reading Teaching Design Based on Thematic Meaning Inquiry. Curriculum and Teaching Methodology (2024) Vol. 7: 142-152. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/curtm.2024.070722.

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