Teaching Reading Comprehension

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Teaching Reading Comprehension

• Processes involved in reading comprehension
• Bottom up models text-driven
• Top-down models reader-driven
• Native language reader models differ from SLA
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• Intensive reading
• Extensive reading
• Grellet
• Skimming
• Scanning
• Intensive
• Extensive

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Reading Tasks

• Novice/intermediate
• Anticipation/prediction
• Pre-reading
• Skimming
• Gisting
• Detecting functions of texts
• Scanning

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• Extracting specific information
• Contextual guessing
• Simple cloze (multiple choice)
• Filling out forms
• Comprehension checks
• Clue searching
• Making inferences
• Scrambled stories

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• Resume
• Passage completion
• Identifying sociolinguistic features
• Identifying discourse structure
• Identifying link words/referents

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Techniques for Teaching reading Skills

• Pre-teaching
• Brainstorming to generate ideas
• Looking at visuals
• Predicting or hypothesizing

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• Skimming/Scanning
• Getting the gist
• Identifying main ideas
• Selecting the best paraphrase
• Filing in chartts or forms with key concepts
• Creating titles
• Making global judgements

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Other stages

• Decoding or intensive reading
• Comprehension Stage
• Transferable/integrating skills

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Sources for Reading Activities

• Textbooks vs. realia
• Newspapers, magazines and other sources
• Photographs (sequence of pictures)
• Web-based materials.

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Activities

• Analyze Pre-reading activity in p.210
• Skimming activity in page 215.
• Extracting specific information p.216