READING
Receptive skill
Approaches to reading: reading fast
Approaches to reading: reading slow
Intensive reading/reading for detail
stop/start kind of reading
comprehension questions
popular in language classes, HOWEVER:
unfortunate to use when reading magazines, novels, generally informative paragraphs
ideally used when competent language learners read instruction manuals or leaflets
obtaining specific information in great detail
Skimming (top down skill)
Scanning (top down skill)
reading quickly to get the gist of a text
key topics
main ideas
basic structure
perfect for answering general questions about a text
moving the eyes quickly over the text to get a specific piece of information
leaflets, directory
dates, names, places, numbers, etc.
Bottom-up (breaking the text down from small to big)
Top down (getting the overall meaning through details associated with world-knowledge)
Task-feedback circle works well
Division into 2 categories based on the speed with which people read (fast-slow)
Potential problems for students of L2
lack of necessary vocabulary
need of dictionaries all the time
reading too slow
connecting the meaning of words to form full sentences (comprehension)
boredom, losing interest