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Objective Through the English newspaper reading activities to create the information transmission platform based on the medium of English,so as to improve the students' ability of receiving,understanding,conversion,processing,and output information.Methods Two natural classes of seven-year program students of Grade 2011 with no difference in Englishproficiencywere selected at randomas control group(30) and the experimental group(30).And reform on reading course has been performed in the experimental class by incorporating English newspaper reading into traditional teaching routine,while the control class maintain the traditional teaching routine.After the teaching,through CET 4 test scores to evaluate the teaching effect.Independent t-test was conducted on the performances of CET 4 between the experimental class and controlled class with the level of test α=0.05.Results The control group was higher than the experimental group inthe total scoreof CET 4 and the performance oflistening and reading,and there was significant difference between the two groups(P of totalscore=0.000,P of listening score=0.002,P of reading score=0.001).But there was no statistically significant difference in writing subtests between the two groups(P=0.072).Conclusion By adopting English newspaper reading and broadcasting in class,students' overall ability of using English has been greatly enhanced,especially the listening comprehension and reading comprehension; however,there is no significant change in the development of students' writing ability due to the tasks designed.
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Language learning strategy is one of the most important items in current college English syllabus,yet it hasn't been given enough attention to.Due to the features of medicine,it is of great importance and emergency to carry out language learning strategy training in medical colleges.The aim of this essay is to promote a new English teaching mode of strategy-based instruction.