A Study On The Feasibility Of Improving High School Students’ English Reading Ability With The Help Of Guided Learning Plan

Reading as an important way of improving students’ English level, plays a significant role in the process of English learning. How to improve students’ English reading ability effectively becomes essential. The outstanding merit of guided learning plan is that students are the center of learning and teaching process. Students learn to read by using learning plan and find out the focal and difficult points at the same time. They enter the class with those questions and discuss with teacher and partners about them, which can improve their initiates.Based on “Zone of Proximal Development” theory and cooperative learning theory, this research treats two fairly comparable grade one classes as the objects, in which class six is the experimental class, class eight control class, lasted for over three months. The research is aimed to study how to improve the students’ reading ability, whether it can arouse their interest and stimulate their reading autonomy by applying guided learning plan. To prove those points, it involves in the test for reading ability, questionnaire and interview. During this period, control class is taught by using the same method as before, that is, putting the teacher into as the center. While in the experimental class, students are guided by the different learning plans which are written on the base of their abilities. They discuss in groups to solve the problems they had met in the process of self-learning, which can develop their ability of solving problems. It also reflects students reading abilities and attitudes for reading and guided learning plan teaching method by making questionnaire before and after the experience. To make up for the adequacy of questionnaire, the students are interviewed at the end of this experience to collect the data of their attitudes for this new teaching method. They also passed the reading tests both before and after the experiment so as to prove whether the new method could improve their reading ability or not.By comparing the data of questionnaires and tests, it reflects that the interest and reading ability of both experimental class and control class are increased. However, the interest in experimental class is higher than control class and the test grades in experimental class also higher, especially for the moderate students. The result of interview shows that it arouses their interest and stimulates them to participate in the activities. Through the analysis of above results, it proves that guided learning plan teaching method can improve the high school students’ reading ability by using guided-learning plan. It can not only arouse their interest and foster the habits of pre-study, but also help them grasp the reading strategies partly and join in the activities.