Research On The Application Of KWL+ Teaching Model In English Reading Teaching Of Senior High School From The Perspective Of Thinking Quality Cultivation

English reading teaching is an important part of English teaching,which undertakes the tasks of imparting language knowledge,cultivating thinking quality and improving reading ability.However,in practical English reading teaching,teachers often focus on the explanation of knowledge content,but ignore the cultivation of students’ thinking quality,especially their critical thinking.At the same time,English reading teaching method is single,in the teaching process the teachers often pay attention to help students grasp the knowledge,but ignore the cultivation of reading skills and reading methods,which leads to the difficulty to improve students’ reading ability.Therefore,how to carry out English reading teaching to improve learners’ critical thinking and reading ability is a critical problem for teachers to consider.This thesis applies the KWL+ teaching model to senior high school English reading teaching,exploring its impact on the critical thinking and reading ability of senior high school English learners,and hopes to provide reference for English reading teaching in senior high school.Based on constructivism learning theory,schema theory,critical reading theory and Bloom’s classification theory of educational objectives,this study adopts educational experiment method,document analysis method,questionnaire survey method,testing method and interview method as research methods,using the Critical Thinking Ability Questionnaire,Reading Ability Test Papers(A,B),Semi-structured Interview outline,WPS software,SPSS23.0 software and other research tools to explores the impact on students’ critical thinking and reading ability by applying KWL+ teaching model in senior high school English reading teaching.For KWL+,K refers to What I know,W refers to What I want to know,L refers to What I have learned and Still need to learn,and “+” refers to Mapping and Writing.The researcher selected 115 students from two parallel classes,Class 2 and Class 4 of Grade 1,from Tumushuke M Senior High School of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region as the research subjects,and carried out the experimental research for nearly 3 months.This study mainly explores the following two questions: First,how does the application of KWL+ teaching model in English reading teaching in senior high school affect the critical thinking of the subjects? It contains three sub-questions: How does the application of KWL+teaching model in English reading teaching in senior high school affect the openness of thinking,the confidence of critical thinking and the thirst for knowledge of the subjects? Second,how does the application of KWL+ teaching model in English reading teaching in senior high school affect the reading ability of the subjects? This question contains four sub-questions,namely,how does the application of KWL+ teaching model in English reading teaching in senior high school affect the subjects’ detail extraction ability,reasoning and judging ability,word meaning guessing ability and the ability of summarizing the main idea?The results are as follows: First,reading teaching under the guidance of KWL+ teaching model has a positive impact on the critical thinking of the experimental class.From the perspective of the sub-dimension of critical thinking,after the experiment,the openness of thinking,the confidence of critical thinking and the thirst for knowledge of the subjects in the experimental class have been significantly improved,especially the subjects’ thirst for knowledge.Second,the application of KWL+ teaching model in English reading teaching in senior high school has improved the reading ability of the subjects in experimental class.After the experiment,the reasoning and judging ability,the meaning guessing ability and the ability of summarizing the main idea of the subjects in experimental class were improved.In particular,the subjects’ reasoning and judging ability has been greatly improved.Based on the research results,the researcher put forward the following three suggestions for English reading teaching in senior high school when using KWL+ teaching model: First,students generate the questions from "what" to "why" can promote the improvement of critical thinking;Second,reflection changes from "passive reflection" to "active reflection" can improve critical thinking;Thirdly,to ensure the pertinence of teaching activities can effectively improve students’ reading ability.