Construction of Mind Story in Decoding Reading : The Approach to and Empirical Teaching on Hemingway’s Hills Like White Elephants

This paper develops a novel approach, dubbed a Mind Story, to the thoughts of writers through decoding the writing and then constructing the deconstructed story into mind. It is beyond the traditional decoding reading for college learners in the curriculum of literature, wherein the interaction between authors and readers is processed as a story, being the most recognizable interface of minds. The principles and proceedings on the construction of mind story are firstly presented and then manifested by the teaching of “Hills Like White Elephants” written by Ernest Miller Hemingway. The differential results show that the construction of ‘Mind Story’ in decoding reading not only gives students interesting aura but also enhances the students’ English abilities throughout the curriculum of literature reading.