摘要

   随着国际间交流的日益增多，人们逐渐意识到外语学习的重要性。阅读能力的提高也是高中阶段英语教学的主要目标之一。但事实上，许多高中生在经过了高中三年的学习之后，他们的英语阅读能力并未达到一个理想的水平，甚至远远落后于其他同学。这一现象已引起许多语言学家和中学英语教师的普遍关注。在本篇论文中，作者试图为高中学生提供一些有关阅读的建议。本文对建构主义理论作了较全面的介绍和分析，重点讨论了建构主义教学理论在高中英语阅读课中的运用，强调以学生为中心，“情景”对意义建构的重要作用，协作学习对意义建构的关键作用，学习者知识的积极构建和基于建构主义的学习模式。

关键词：英语阅读； 建构主义； 学习模式

Abstract

    With the increase of interaction among nations, people have gradually developed the awareness of the importance of a foreign language as a tool for global communication. Improving students' reading abilities is one of the objectives of senior English teaching. But the fact is that after three years of learning in high school, many students don't get a high level in reading ability, even far behind other students. This has drawn great attention of many linguists and researchers working in this field. In this paper, the author tries to provide senior students with suggestion in English reading. The author makes a general introduction and analysis on constructivism. Discussions are focused on the effective use of constructivism in the English reading. Emphasis should be placed on role of students and teachers, the important function of "environment" to knowledge construction, the crucial function of collaboration study to meaning construction and the active construction of knowledge among learner and teaching model based on constructivism.

 Key Words: English reading, constructivism, teaching model

1. Constructivism
1.1 Background
    In recent twenty years, behaviorist learning theory has given way to the cognitive learning theory, which views the students as the subject in the information processing. With the gradual development of the psychologist’s exploration about the law of human cognitive learning process, Constructivism learning theory, a branch of the cognitive learning theory, comes into vogue in western countries for the past few years.
Constructivism derived from theory of children’s cognitive development. As the individual's cognitive development is closely related to the learning process, Constructivism can well explain the cognitive law of the learning process, the construction of meaning and concept formation, as well as the ideal learning environment. In a word, the guide of constructivism can form a new set of more effective cognitive learning theory, and on this basis to achieve the ideal.