On Non-English Major Students ’ English Reading Teaching Directed by Discourse Analysis Theory

Abstract—Traditional English teaching has always been focused on English reading whose disadvantage is becoming more and more obvious in the improvement of modern English teaching for college students, and students need to analyze an article from a macro and overall point of view. This paper introduces the definition of discourse theory and its concrete contents, combining discourse analysis theory and English reading teaching methods, putting forwards exact operating advice on the purpose of enhancing students ’ consciousness of discourse analysis and improving students ’ reading ability. Key words-English reading, discourse analysis, teaching of reading methods I