鞍山师范学院学报

“窄式阅读”是指学习者通过阅读同一风格、同一主题或某位作家的多部作品来提高阅读能力的一种策略。本文介绍了窄式阅读的理论来源——克拉森的“输入假设”理论以及有关窄式理论的一些实证研究,阐述了窄式阅读有利于学习者词汇和背景知识的积累,是一项有效的二语习得策略,如果这一策略被应用到外语阅读课教学当中,也将会对教师有很大启示。

Narrow reading,originally defined as a learning strategy,requires that the learner read the books written by one author,or about a single topic of interest,or in one genre.Narrow reading can be beneficial especially to language learning.The paper starts with an introduction of Krashen's Input Hypothesis,which is believed to be closely related to narrow reading,and a discussion of empirical studies of narrow reading.It is found that narrow reading facilitates both the vocabulary acquisition and the accumulation of readers' background knowledge.Thus,such a learning strategy,if brought to EFL reading class,will produce much implication to both teachers and students.