Teaching and learning reading in a second language

Teaching and learning reading in a second language

1. Teaching reading

   • Highlights
     • Bottom-up and top-down processing
       • Multiplicity of linguistic signals
       • Intelligence and experience to understand the text
       • Interactive reading
     • Schema theory and background knowledge
       • Stimulus and assign to appropriate groups of concepts
       • Skills in reading
         • Interaction between
           • Linguistic knowledge
           • Knowledge of the world

2. The role of affect and culture

   • Reading is subject to variability
     • within the affective domain
   • Autonomy
     • Powerful motivation

3. The power of extensive reading

   • Reading for pleasure
     • Overall language proficiency

4. Adult literacy training

   • Skills-based
     • Bottom-up
   • Strategies-based
     • Top-Down

5. Types of written language

   • Non-fiction
   • Diaries
   • Academic writing
   • Bills
   • Applications

6. Characteristics of written language

   • Permanence
     • Written language
       • Return again and again
   • Processing time
     • Readers
       • Capitalize on the nature of a printed word
         • Develop very rapid reading rates
   • Distance
     • Task of reader
       • To Interpret language
         • Written in some other place
   • Ortography
     • Infer and interpret
       • Read between lines
   • Complexity
     • Readers
       • Retool their cognitive perceptors
         • Extract the meaning from the written code
   • Vocabulary
     • Greater variety of
       • Lexical items
   • Formality
     • Prescribed forms
       • certain messages must
         • adhere to

7. Strategies for reading comprehension

   • Identify the purpose
   • Use graphemic rules and patterns to aid in bottom-up
   • Skim the text for main ideas
   • Scan the text for specific information
   • Use clustering
   • Guessing