Teaching Reading

Teaching Reading

1. Research on reading in a second laguage

   • Bottom- Up and Top-DOwn Processing
   • Schema Theory and background knowledge
   • Teaching strategic reading
   • Extensive reading
   • Reading rate, fluency, and automaticity
   • the role of affect and culture
   • Second language literacy

2. Characteristics of written language

   • Permanence
   • Distance
   • Orthography
   • Complexity
   • Vocabulaty
   • Formality

3. Strategies for reading comprehension

   • Idetify the purpose in reading
   • Use graphemics rules
   • Use efficient silent reading techniques
   • skim the text for main ideas
   • Scan the text for specific information
   • Use semantic mapping or clutering
   • Guess when you aren´t certain
   • Analyze vocabulary
   • Distinguish between literal and implied meanings

4. Principles for teaching reading skills

   • In an integrated course
   • Offer reading on relevant, interesting , motivating topics
   • Balance authenticity and readability in choosing texts
   • Encourage the development of reading strategies
   • Include both bottom-up and top-down techniques
   • Follow the SQ3R sequence
   • Design pre-reading while reading , and post-reading phases