English Reading Teaching from the Perspective of Functional Discourse Analysis

Abstract

Reading is a major form of language learning.Reading teaching plays an important role expecially for English learners in China. It has always been the focus of English teaching, which requires a lot of teaching time. But the effect of English reading teaching is far from perfect. How to achieve the requirements of curriculum standards for students has always been a challenge for us. It is an urgent task for our teachers to really improve students' English reading ability and level. Through a comparative analysis of the differences between texts and functional texts, this paper explores how to cultivate students' ability to construct a quick and desired understanding of a text in the context of functional textual analysis so as to improve their English reading ability.

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“…Anderson further said that the goal of reading is reading comprehension. Reading comprehension refers to the process whereby information of the written work is recognized and interpreted deeply by the readers (Kong, 2019;Zhang, 2019), and the ability to comprehend and interpret the text information in an appropriate manner (Grabe & Stoller, 2011). Furthermore, Oakhill (2019) added that reading comprehension is a prerequisite not only for understanding the text, but also for learning, and other social activities.…”