| Acknowledgements | 第1-4页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第4-7页 |
| Abstract in English | 第7-11页 |
| 1． Introduction | 第11-14页 |
| 2． The Present College English Reading Teaching in China | 第14-20页 |
| 2．1 The aim of CET | 第14-15页 |
| 2．2 Reading—the most important English skill for college students | 第15页 |
| 2．3 The understanding of teachers & students | 第15-17页 |
| 2．4 The traditional way of teaching reading in China | 第17-20页 |
| 3． Communicative Competence & General Principles of Communication | 第20-26页 |
| 3．1 What is communicative competence | 第20-23页 |
| 3．2 The nature of communication in reading | 第23-24页 |
| 3．3 General principles of communicative approach for language teaching | 第24-26页 |
| 4． The Nature of Reading & Some Theoretical Basis | 第26-36页 |
| 4．1 The nature of reading | 第26-27页 |
| 4．2 Theoretical bases of reading | 第27-36页 |
| 4．2．1 Schema theory | 第27-31页 |
| 4．2．2 Bottom-up model | 第31-32页 |
| 4．2．3 Top-down model | 第32-33页 |
| 4．2．4 Interactive model | 第33-36页 |
| 5． Application of Communicative Approach in Reading Teaching | 第36-62页 |
| 5．1 Some views in practical communicative reading teaching | 第36-37页 |
| 5．2 Pre-reading preparations to attain the communicative aim | 第37-44页 |
| 5．2．1 The interaction between readers and writers | 第38-39页 |
| 5．2．2 The notion of authenticity | 第39-40页 |
| 5．2．3 The cross-culture learning | 第40-41页 |
| 5．2．4 Introducing background knowledge | 第41-44页 |
| 5．3 Text and knowledge-based tasks to make the communication effectively between readers and texts | 第44-58页 |
| 5．3．1 Pre-reading activities to motivate the communication desire | 第44-48页 |
| 5．3．2 While-reading skills to facilitate the communication between readers and texts | 第48-58页 |
| 5．3．2．1 Developments of communicative reading skills | 第48-51页 |
| 5．3．2．2 Developments of communicative language skill | 第51-56页 |
| 5．3．2．3 Communicative skills training | 第56-57页 |
| 5．3．2．4 Other integrating skills | 第57-58页 |
| 5．4 Post-reading check-up exercises to consolidate the communicative results | 第58-62页 |
| 5．4．1 Performance-based exercises | 第59-60页 |
| 5．4．2 Attitudes towards mistakes and errors | 第60页 |
| 5．4．3 The role of the teacher in the communicative reading class | 第60-62页 |
| 6． Exploiting a Reading Text | 第62-69页 |
| 7． Conclusion | 第69-71页 |
| Appendix | 第71-73页 |
| Bibliography | 第73-75页 |
