The Teaching of Intensive Reading in a Register Perspective
The main purpose of language teaching is to develop students' “meaning potential”, to enable them to choose language appropriate for its context of situation within the “potential”. And language according to use is what register theory is chiefly concerned with. This paper deals with the teaching practice in the intensive reading course under the guidance of register theory. It is believed that the trying practice can help improve students' mastery of appropriateness in the use of English and in the long run help develop their “meaning potential”.