阅读是一个认知和语言交际的过程,也是一种极为复杂的生理、心理过程。这一过程的完成要求阅读者利用掌握的阅读技能,领会作者通过语言符号表达的意图,使这些符号意义化,从而达到与作者的思想沟通。阅读的过程实际上就是对语言信息的理解过程。要帮助初中学生提高英语阅读能力,教师必须在阅读的时效性、策略性和 Reading is a process of cognition and language communication. It is also an extremely complex physiological and psychological process. The completion of this process requires the reader to use the acquired reading skills and comprehend the intention of the authors to express them through the language symbols so that these symbols can be meaningful, so as to achieve the ideological communication with the author. The reading process is actually the process of understanding language information. To help junior high school students improve their English reading ability, teachers must be effective and strategic in reading.