Explore The Development Trend Of The Information Era Language Reading Instruction

The 21st century is the information era. Information, as a mean of life, has penetrated into every aspect of our society like never before. Information explosion, information highway, and multimedia are three main characteristics of the new information era and they have a direct impact on our traditional educational model of Chinese reading. Reading capability has always been the most important element in four of the Chinese language learning requirements, and that's why it is been set as the "top of the top" in Chinese language teaching practice. Establishing a new teaching model for reading becomes our top priority. In another word, information has a profound impact on the meaning, the value, the objective, the content, and the method of reading education within our society.This article starts out on how information era changes human spices' social living environment, then emphasizes on how we should adapt reading education to the new world. High school students in the new era have tremendous reading resources,but the key to success is to select the correct reading material. Information era requires them acquire comprehensive reading capabilities, including:l)managing information flow; 2) read fast, read smart, and detail oriented; 3) knowing how to develop questions;4)test the knowledge from reading in practice. In order to help students achieve this goal, Chinese language teachers should have an open mind and build an evaluation system which can encourage students to explore theirpotentials. The vital step in building this system is to develop an effective reading strategy specifically tailored to high school students' reading pattern. It's no doubt this brings challenges on all Chinese language teachers. Many countries with advanced information technology started to develop reading theories one century prior to China and their theories and practices in reading education provided valuable learning resources to Chinese language teachers.The objective of this article is:through forming a new educational principle which will adapt to the new information era, and constructing anew educational strategy for reading, assist students develop their need for reading and enhance their reading capabilities. The goal is to foster creative students who can think out of the box, think real, and has the ability to adapt to the ever changing world.