A Study on the Teaching Effects of Contextual Elements in English Reading Teaching for Secondary Vocational Schools

Contextual elements are an important part of English reading teaching, directly influencing the cultivation of students’ comprehension of texts and their language application abilities. Based on the vocational English textbooks published by Higher Education Press, this article combines contextual theory with the reality of vocational English teaching to analyze the practical difficulties in the application of contextual elements in current vocational English reading teaching. It explores the teaching effects of contextual elements in resolving vocabulary obstacles,constructing text logic, and fostering cross-cultural competence. Moreover, it proposes practical strategies such as mining teaching resources, building multimodal contexts, and designing stratified context-based tasks, aiming to fully leverage the teaching value of contextual elements, enhance the quality of vocational English reading teaching, and achieve the goal of cultivating core subject literacy.