A Study Of The Application Of Multimodal Teaching Approach To English Reading Teaching In Junior High School

English reading is an important way of language acquisition.Meanwhile,English reading ability is crucial to language learning.Nevertheless,when teaching reading,teachers usually adopt single teaching mode and have little interaction with students.Thus the teaching effect is unsatisfactory.Roland Barthes(1977)first proposed the multimodal discourse analysis theory,and then in 1996,New London group proposed to integrate it into language teaching.Subsequently,scholars at home and abroad began to pay attention to multimodal teaching.They found that under the guidance of the theoretical framework of multimodal discourse analysis,multimodal teaching can integrate linguistic and non-linguistic signs into classroom teaching.In this way,the content of the article became three-dimensional and intuitive and students can integrate various sensory organs into learning.A large number of theoretical and practical studies have shown that multimodal teaching approach can improve students’ reading interest and reading ability.But among them,junior high school students as the research subjects were few.Therefore,the author implemented teaching experiments in Shenyang No.43 Middle School.Class 1 and Class 5 were selected as the experimental class and the control class.The experimental class carried out multimodal teaching,while the control class adopted the traditional teaching mode for application research.The purpose of this study is to explore the following points:(1)The influence of-multimodal teaching approach on the interest and attitude of JHS students in English reading;(2)The influence of multimodal teaching approach on the English reading ability of JHS students.During the experiment,questionnaires,tests and interviews were used as research methodologies to conduct qualitative and quantitative analysis.Finally,this experimental study drew the following conclusions: most students in the experimental class liked this new teaching mode of English reading very much.Multimodal reading teaching can stimulate students’ interest in learning,cultivate their English thinking ability and improve their scores in reading tests.And multimodal teaching has the greatest impact on low-level English reading learners.At the same time,some high-level students considered that too many multimodal resources occupied the time of knowledge learning.Therefore,teachers should pay attention to use multiple resources properly.Although this study has some limitations,it is still of practical value for junior high school English reading teaching.