Stimulating Students' Interest in English Reading —— Does Humorous Short Essays Have a Great Role?

English reading has always been the most important part of English test in China. Whether it is the ordinary mid-term and final exams, or the large-scale college entrance examination and CET-4 and CET-6 exams, English reading scores account for a very large proportion of the total score of the paper. It is for this reason that English reading has become a topic of great concern to English teachers, and many students are even more disgusted with it. Because it is easy to arouse students' rebellious psychology, make them lose interest in English reading, and even treat daily necessary exercises negatively in the process of teachers repeatedly emphasizing and forcing students to practice. Obviously, this runs counter to the original intention of reading practice. In view of this situation, Xiaobian today wants to introduce some more interesting reading materials to help students cultivate their reading interest and then exercise their reading comprehension ability.

To cultivate students' interest in reading, English humorous essays are undoubtedly the best choice. From the perspective of story length, short stories of 15 to 3 words are more in line with the needs of modern students' fragmented reading mode. Students can finish reading in scattered spare time on their way to and from school. From the content of the story, the exaggerated and humorous plot can meet the students' demand for reading interest, and then stimulate their intrinsic learning motivation. The teacher asked me to do reading, and I wanted to do reading exercises myself. At the same time, this kind of humorous short essay is different from the crude funny dialogue, and the idea is often very subtle, and the joke is implied between the lines of the article. In the process of exploring the punchline, students will naturally think and improve their reading comprehension ability invisibly.

When students' English reading ability reaches a certain level, teachers can try to make students read some short reasoning stories. The conception of this kind of story is more complicated and the logical relationship is closer. When students follow the story to reason the truth, they can not only exercise their reading level, but also improve the rigor of thinking.

Of course, such articles can only be used as teaching aids. Teachers should still give lectures in a systematic way in class, and urge students to practice reading exercises on time every day. However, for students who are very resistant or have no confidence in reading, they can first cultivate their interest through humorous essays. Because forcing students to practice blindly at this time will only be counterproductive. Making students more unable to concentrate on reading exercises will not only fail to improve their reading level, but even make them lose interest in English learning, which will not pay off.

to sum up, as the saying goes: Interest is the best teacher? . However, how to cultivate students' interest is a task that every teacher needs to seriously think about. Xiao Bian hopes that this article can provide a good method for English teachers. Humorous short essays are used to cultivate students' interest in reading, and then the students' comprehensive English ability is improved in order to cultivate all-round high-quality English talents for the motherland.