Teaching Reading

Teaching Reading

1. Research on reading in a 2nd language

   • Buttom up and Top down processing
   • Background knowledge
   • Teaching strategic reading
   • Extensive reading
   • Reading rate, fluency and automaticity
   • Focus on vocabulary
   • The role of Affect and Culture
   • Second language literacy

2. Genres of written Language

   • Fiction
   • Letters
   • Journals
   • Non-fiction

3. Characteristics of written language

   • 1. Permance
   • 2. Processing time
   • 3.Distance
   • 4. Orthography
   • 5. Complexity
   • 6. Vocabulary
   • 7. Formality

4. Microskills

   • Discriminate among the distintive graphemes of english
   • Retain chunks of language
   • Comprehend written language at an efficient rate of speed
   • Interpret word order patterns
   • Recognize grammatical word classes and rules
   • Recognize that a particular meaning can be expressed in many different ways.

5. Macroskills

   • Recognize cohesive devices
   • Recognize the rhetorical forms
   • Recognize the communicative functions
   • Infer context that is not explicit
   • Infer links and connections
   • Distinguish different meanings
   • Detect the culturally refferences
   • Use reading strategies

6. Strategies for reading comprehension

   • Identify the purpose
   • Graphemic rules and patterns
   • Use silent reading techniques
   • Skimming and scanning
   • Use clustering
   • Make guessing
   • Analize vocabulary

7. Types of clasroom reading performance

   • Oral
   • Silent
     • Intensive
     • Extensive

8. Principles for teaching reading skills

   • Include reading skills
   • Offer reading
   • Balanced authenticity and readability
   • Development of reading strategies
   • Include bottom up and Top down techniques
   • Follow the "SQ3R" sequence
   • Design reading phases
   • Build informal assesment
     • Types for assessing reading
       • Perceptive reading
       • selective reading
       • Interactive reading
       • Extensive reading