TEACHING READING

TEACHING READING

1. Traditional approach

   • gradually grammar structures
   • gradually words
   • in simple reading texts

2. Usage

   • Widdoson
   • User demonstrates his knowledge of linguistic rules

3. Use

   • Widdoson
   • How these rules are used for effective communication

4. Genuineness is a characteristic of the text itself and is an absoulte quality

5. authenticity is the relationship between the passage and the reader and the approppriate responses

   • Types of question according to Widdoson (1978)
     • Wh-questions
     • Polar questions
     • Truth assessment
       • That is the most satisfactory
     • Multiple choice
   • Authentic texts are samples of language used by or for native speakers.

6. A top-down strategy

   • macro-level cues to decode a text to acquire more global understanding of its content.
     • title, lenght, pictures, typeface

7. A bottom up strategy

   • involve the decodifing of a passage step-by step from small textual elements.
     • words and phrases

8. Active process

   • Guessing
   • anticipating
   • confirming
   • predicting
   • Cooperative learning
     • Sharing information of knowledge in groups within the classroom

9. ACTIVITIES

   • Skimming
     • Scanning
       • Organizing
         • Predicting
           • Checking comprehension
             • Inferring
               • Linking ideas
   • Understanding
     • Complex sentences
       • Writer's style
         • Evaluating text
           • Reacting to the text
             • Writing summaries

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