Abstract

This thesis discusses some issues commonly observed in English reading. The purpose of the paper is to throw light on issues that arise from students’ reading obstacles and put forward some innovative and feasible teaching methodologies to improve the students’ reading abilities. A simple survey is conducted by the author, using six question items with each item representing an important issue about English reading in an attempt to explore the most common problems that Mongolian students may meet with during their reading process. These items/issues are as follows: (1) small vocabulary; (2) limited strategies and skills; (3) inadequate culture background knowledge; (4) unable to understand the context; (5) bad reading habits; and (6) lack of Language sense. The paper then discusses each issue one by one and makes some practical suggestions to help address these issues as a way to introduce some innovative teaching methods to give guidance to students. With due consideration of the analysis above, we may draw a conclusion that the teacher should take into account the comprehensive factors that affect English reading and strive for the inspiring teaching strategies to help improve students’ reading competence.

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