The Reading Skills
Purpose of teaching reading skills:
Importance to realize the difference between teaching reading skills and teaching "texts"
Teaching reading skills - aims at preparing students to be able to read other texts
Teaching texts - aims at understanding only the text being read in class, memorizing the content, students are to understand the text and structures presented in it.
Efficiency - balancing the effort exercised with the results achieved:
Transfer of skills:
Global approach
- to get the gist of a text, the overall meaning of the text (they should use what they know o understand unknown elements)
Text selection
2 kinds of texts:
a) presentation text - non-authentic text, short, simple to present structures, allow 100 % comprehension without too much difficulty
b) skills-practice text - to practice reading skills, usually authentic but if not, teacher should use simplified authentic texts; most skills are practiced on real authentic texts
Reading techniques:
1. skimming - to get the gist of
2. scanning - quickly going through the text to find specific information
3. contextual guessing - guessing the meaning of unknown word from the surroundings context
4. cloze exercise - blank filling
5. outlining - note taking
6. paraphrasing
7. jigsaw reading/scrambled stories - reordering
8. information transfer - e.g. drawing a route map
9. making inferences - reading between lines
10. extensive reading - for pleasure, long texts, individual global understanding
11. intensive reading - short texts to extract specific information
12. passage competition - finishing a reading passage
Different types of reading tasks:
- re-reading - focusing on meaning, developing expectations about text, proving reason for reading text
- while-reading - getting meaning of text by using appropriate strategies and skills
- post-reading - feedback on reading, integrating with other skills
Various types of texts:
- specially written
- simplified authentic texts
- authentic texts
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