READING WITH A PURPOSE

READING WITH A PURPOSE

1. PURPOSE

   • Having a purpose means having a reason to do something with a goal in mind
     • The goal involves learning or entretainment
   • Affects the reader's motivation, interest and manner of reading

2. READING IN THE REAL WORLD

   • Reading outside the classroom or nonacademic reading is performed according to the reader's purpose and the situation
     • INFORMATION VS PLEASSURE
       • READING FOR INFORMATION
         • Scanning documents, read letters, articles or books
           • Read to learn an gain information
       • READING FOR PLEASSURE
         • Narrative, In particular, popular fiction
           • Its the antithesis of academic or serious reading
       • Depends on what we want from the text
   • Why and where we read determine how we read

3. PLEASURE READING IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

   • KRASHEN'S THEORY
     • Reading for pleasure is an important source of information for acquisition
       • The student is going to select what he or she wants to read,
     • TO ENCOURAGE THE READING
       • Foreign language departments must provide recourses of interest to the students
       • Classroom enviroment must promuve outside reading
         • Students should work with magazines and newspappers
       • General culture, stories, tales, intermediate textsbooks and others

4. THE FACTOR OF INTEREST

   • Reaeder's interest in a text can also be a function of purpose
     • CATEGORIES OF INTEREST
       • Individual or personal
       • Situation of interest
       • Situational Interest