READING

READING

1. Skills that help you understand a text

   • Systemic (Language Knowledge - vocabulary, structure, etc
     • Sintactic Knowledge (relation between words)
     • Morphological Knowledge (meaning of the words)
   • Schematic (General Knowledege - mental representations)
     • General World Knowledge (sense of the words by context)
     • Sociocultural Knowledge (about the culture)
     • Topic Knowledge
     • Genre Knowledge (Knowing what the text is about)

2. Ways in wich reading is a purposefull process

   • Receptive reading (undertaken information)
   • Reflective Reading (Reflect about what you're reading)
   • Skim Reading (Global impression of the text)
   • Scanning Reading (Search for specific information)
   • Intensive Reading (Looking at he text word by word)
   • Extensive reading (students choose what they like, they read on their own, teacher should prepare activities to follow the reading and process)

3. ways in wich reading is critical process

   • Readers analize the message behind the text
   • As teachers:
     • We have to make them aware of the context
     • we should not use our authority for promoting our own opinion
     • In contrversal areas we should have discussion rather tan instruction
     • we should protect different points of view

4. SCROL (procedure to help understand, remember and locate information)

   • Survey the headings
   • Connect
   • Read the text
   • Outline
   • Look back

5. Kinds of tasks to help develop reading ability (three-phace procedure)

   • PRE (oriented in the context, what purpose, etc)
   • WHILE (react to the opinions, take notes, confirm expectetions, etc)
   • POST (debate, role play, concentrate in linguistics features)

6. where you can make sense of the text by creating your own interpretation or by trying to interpretate what is the author saying

   • Top Down procces
     • To use Prior Knowledge to work on the meaning of the text
       • Bottom up
         • To describe decoding of the language features in a text

7. The reading process it's an interaction between the lector and the text, it's a psycholinguistic process and a guessing game