Improving,Engineering,Students’,Reading,Comprehension,Ability Comprehension翻译

　　Abstract: This paper analyses the college students’ reading problems and points out the importance of reading, then gives some suggestions on how to improve the college students’ reading ability,. It is expected that with some effective ways, the reader can help students read actively and grow into effective and independent readers. How much readers understand a text depends on how much they bring into it, to be efficient readers, students can use their background knowledge of the reading text and so on.
　　Key words: reading comprehension ability; background knowledge; encourage; improve.
　　1 Introduction
　　“Comprehension is the essence of reading; indeed it is the only purpose for reading” (Richek et al. , 1996:154). Most English reading teachers have attributed their students’ poor reading comprehension to linguistic deficiencies. Consequently poor readers are encouraged to expand their vocabularies and to gain greater control over complex syntactic structures so long as to improve reading comprehension.
　　Improving students’ reading ability has always been a focus in College English teaching, for most Chinese people obtain information conveyed in English this way. Yet years of efforts have produced little much- desired results. Widdowson (1983) discovered a text does not actually provide all the information for comprehension. Anderson & Pearson (1984) almost agree, arguing written symbols on the page are only indications for the readers to reconstruct the meaning of the text.
　　2 The Importance Of Teaching Reading
　　There are many reasons why getting students to read English texts is an important part of the teacher’s job. In the first place, many of them want to be read texts in English either for their careers, for study purposes or simply for pleasure. Anything we can do to make reading easier for them must be a good idea.
　　Reading is useful for other purposes too: any exposure to English is a good thing for language students. At the very least, some of the language sticks in their minds as part of the process of language acquisition, and, if the reading text is especially interesting and engaging, acquisition is likely to be even more successful.
　　Reading is regarded as the most efficient means to obtain scientific and technological information in this age of knowledge explosion, reading comprehension is one of the aspects indispensable to learning English as a foreign language, especially our College English Syllabus. Consequently, reading efficiency has turned a serious problem to be discussed.