Analysis of Thematic Context in English Reading Teaching

In recent years, thematic context has become a hot topic in foreign language teaching. The General Senior Secondary English Curriculum Standards (2017 Edition, Revised in 2020) lists the thematic context as the first element of the curriculum content, and emphasizes that all language learning activities should be carried out in a certain thematic context. However, in the actual English teaching, some teachers are out of context and only focus on the one-way transmission of knowledge in the textbook, regardless of whether students really understand and use it. Teaching English reading is not just about transferring knowledge, but about putting students in situations to find and solve problems. This paper discusses and analyzes some current researches, and proposes some optimization strategies for English reading teaching based on thematic contexts. In the teaching of English reading, teachers should teach the whole unit based on a certain thematic context and guided by rich reading materials and methods, so as to cultivate students' comprehensive ability and cross-cultural awareness.