English for Specific Purposes Reading

English for Specific Purposes Reading

1. Reading Skills

   • Tasks given for the teacher
     • Asking for meaning, relations with other topics, asking for main idea or references

2. Reading comprehension

   • The general purpose when someone is reading

3. Munby's Taxonomy

   • Recognizing script of language
     • This is a task proposed by a teacher for students to use with any text and give a context
   • Skimming and Scanning
     • This is a skill students need to develop for the reading comprehension

4. Criteria for Skills

   • Logical implication
     • Pragmatic
       • This is one of the skill that the teacher can asses in order to improve the others
     • Developmental
       • There are different stages of the process for students to develop specific skills, teachers can help with the process and help them to develop the skills
     • Difficulty
       • Depending of the students level, the teacher can make differents activites for a reading.
         • For a basic level, ask for meaning of words, main ideas, simple questions to find information in the reading...
         • For an advanced level, ask for autorh's intention, conecting ideas wiht other text, identify the use of language, specific vocabulary...

5. Classroom reading process

   • Pre-reading
     • Before starting, the teacher can ask students about what they think about a topic or use the title to start a conversation that is related with the text
   • While- reading
     • Students start reading. Then, they will look for main ideas, new vocabulary, make a summarize, ask the teacher to understand the context of a word...
   • Post-reading
     • The teacher ask about the text in different ways, like asking for a writing assignement, answer questions, asking opinion or a role-play.

6. Reading techniques

   • Formal
     • Used in the classroom, different types of test to determinate a reader level
   • Informal
     • A personal way to ask about the development of the reader