Reading (receptive skill)
discourse - connected text
reading=understanding these connections
coherence - sense connections between twi sentences
cohesion - grammatical links between
the sentences
reading skills/subskills.
these are:
Reading for specific information (Scanning)
Reading for detail (intensive reading)
Deducing meaning from context - reading the words around an unknown word or thinking about the situation
the unknown word is used in to try and work out its meaning (without any reference resource)
Understanding text structure (Readers expect certain
information to come in certain sequences)
Reading for gist (Skimming) - reading for global understanding
Inferring - notice what words, register, grammar or style the
writer has used to refer to something (feelings etc)
Predicting
ways of reading
Extensive
Intensive
reading for pleasure (reading long pieces of text)
you can use different subskills
reading for language study
text types
letters, articles, postcards, stories, information
brochures, leaflets and poems...
different lengths, layouts (the ways in which text is placed on the
page), topics and kinds of language
Graded readers (books with language
made easier for language learners)
Activities in classroom:
Introductory activities
Main activities
Post-task activities