上海外国语大学英语学院 李尚宏

The course names: ◦ Extensive Reading ◦ Reading and Study skills

Do native speakers have it? ◦ Reading Faster and Understanding More◦ Reading and Writing

Did the great masters have it? What do we expect of the students? What is the reality with students?

Vocabulary Reading speed Reading skills Study skills Orientation Concentration Many others

Some Examples Transgression Precede—precedent—unprecedented Tantalize Peeping tom

How to remember words? ◦ Word formation◦ Keeping a vocabulary notebook and other ways

How do they respond?

Which is better?

Topic Main idea Topic Sentence Details---organization patterns Types of writing

◦ Narrative◦ Descriptive ◦ Argumentative

Knowing where to pay attention to Quicker to catch main ideas More conscious of organization Reading faster Asking more questions Writing better

Textbooks◦ Which one to choose? ◦ How much do we depend on them?

Classics◦ What to begin with?◦ How do me make sure they really read and

enjoy? Newspapers, Magazines and others

Greek and Roman Myths Bible Stories Tales from Shakespeare The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes Detective stories by Agatha Christie Harry Porter The Call of the Wild Fiction translated into English Simplified classics English texts by Chinese authors

Challenging questions Retelling relay Classroom discussions Book reports Exams

Reading habits◦ Good ones ◦ Bad ones

Reading word by word Reading phrase by phrase Reading area by area

St. Johns Peking University Others

开课时间： 2 学期 教材：圣经、希腊罗马神话，此外没有固定教材 做法：课下阅读，老师上课讲解，有时提问，很少

讨论。 反响：有些同学很喜欢，但上久了觉得没劲，好

像传教一样。收获自然有一些，觉得自己对西方文化了解了很多。

开课时间： 2 学期 教材：泛读教程 ( 高等教育出版社 )+ 老师推荐书

目（如老人与海） 做法：书里的知识点 + 第一学期分组

presentation 反响：两个学期分不同的老师教；对只讲知识点

的老师学生反响较好

2 学期。 （外教授课无固定用书）阅读材料活页 + 每两周一

本原版读物课外阅读 做法

◦ 阅读推荐和分析◦ 看原版读物写 reading memo （课外作业◦ 一学期 4 篇规定主题的 paper

学生反响◦ 泛读课课堂里学到的东西实在是不多 . 但是课后的阅读收

获很多 . 可以说他们课余时间很大一部分是用在看这些书+ 写 reading memo 上 ~

开课时间： 4 学期 教材：泛读教程（上外出版社王守仁老师主编） +

老师印的其他读物 做法：

◦ presentation （关于课文的），然后根据课文发一些材料做 essay reading

◦ 交流读书报告或者 academic paper 的写作 ( 这个是一学期的学期任务 )

反响：反响还不错，比较自由的一门课，写paper 很锻炼人，特别是变态的 linguistic paper……”

开课时间： 2 学期 教材：泛读教程（上外出版社王守仁老师主编） 做法：教材 + 课外资料，一般泛泛的讲解，没有

系统的阅读技巧的 反响： “我们班反应很不好。也有觉得不错的班

，主要是老师的问题，反应与教材无关”

Skills are essential◦ Vocabulary skills◦ Reading skills

The textbook is deficient and supplementary materials are to be used to eke out.

The teacher plays a pivotal role.

地址：上海外国语大学英语学院 200083 电话： 021-65311900-2329 油箱： lishanghong@shisu.edu.cn