The Influence Of Repeated Readings Times On English Reading Comprehension Grades Of Nine-graders

Whether in the process of learning Chinese or learning English,reading aloud has been playing a significant role.Since ancient times,there are sayings that "When a book is read a hundred times,its meanings will naturally become clear.” " If you read the three hundred Tang poems over and over again,you will be able to chant some of them at least." and "People become dull if they don't read or practice for one day." and so on.It is evident that persistant reading can improve people's reading comprehension.In junior high school,there are quite a number of students do not have a thorough understanding of English phonetics and English grammar when they first came to learn English,which made it particularly difficult for them to learn English in the second and third years of junior high school.Their problems are mainly reflected in two aspects:First,they do not have many pronunciation skills,which always makes them get the pronunciation wrong and have difficulties in remembering English words;Second,they don't know or can't understand the English grammar rules,which makes them misunderstand the meaning of sentences or articles even after knowing the meanings of words.Students make higher-rate mistakes in reading comprehension when they come across problems that test higher-order thinking ability or deeper comprehension.For nine-graders,the time for study is limited and the pressure is increasing day by day,so it is necessary to help students to develop effective reading habits.By studying the influence of repeated readings on English reading comprehension grades of nine-graders,we can find ways to improve students' English comprehension ability and maximize efficiency,which has certain indicative value and significance for the front-line English teachers and nine-graders.This study aims to carry out an experiment study on the whole students of Class11 and Class 12 of Grade 9 in a middle school in Chongqing.The students are divided into three groups according to the average scores of the pretest.The members of eachgroup needs to read an article aloud on the phone every day after coming home from school every day,and the reading times are respectively,3 times,4times and 5 times.Reading materials are short passages with about 200-400 words prepared in advance from the senior high school entrance examinations of different provinces or from mock tests in the past few years.The author monitors students' reading and gives appropriate feedback and suggestions every day.Students' English reading comprehension achievements were tested before and after the experiment,and the test results were analyzed from four main question types: detail information questions,meaning-guessing questions,inferring questions and main-idea questions.The results of the research shows that the three Experimental Groups got higher scores on English reading comprehension after the repeated reading experiment,among which repeating three times can make students get the best grades on the detail information questions;repeating four times can make students get the best grades on meaning-guessing questions,and repeating five times can make students get the best grades on main idea questions,while none of them improved the students' grades on the inferring questions,which means that repeated reading doesn't have an influence on the inferring grades of the nine-graders.