How to Develop Students' Viewing Skill in High School English Teaching with the Multimodal Discourse

In the 21st century, humans have officially entered the era of picture reading, and the single language medium is gradually replaced by the complex media composed of language, image and sound. Traditional language signs and non-verbal signs have become indispensable sources of information. The ability to see based on multimodal discourse is particularly important today and in the future. To cultivate students' reading ability based on multimodal discourse is the requirement of Times, the need to help students understand the discourse better, and the necessary condition to promote students' all-round development. In senior high school, when teachers cultivate students' reading ability based on multimodal discourse, it would be better for them to follow the following three stages: first, decode the surface content and obtain key information; Second, carefully read, understand and develop the ability to use information; Third, deep insight to promote students' whole-person development.