Abstract

Objective: Taking the teaching process in English reading class in colleges as an example, the essay tries to analyze and solve the problems existing in English covertly stratified teaching. Thus, the students’ ability of autonomous reading can be improved. It provides detailed descriptions from different points of view. That is, the teacher prepares, gives and raises questions in stratified ways while the students preview the lesson and discuss in stratified ways. Methods: The study explores the covertly stratified teaching model on the training of college students’ autonomous reading ability through the experimental method. The covertly stratified teaching model and the traditional teaching model are adopted respectively by the experimental class and control class to make a contrast.  Conclusion: The students in experimental class are not only significantly superior to students in control class on English reading attitude, motivation, strategy, method, monitoring and evaluation but also improve their reading students’ autonomous reading skills, but also can improve the reading grades of the students significantly.