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LEARNING READING - Coggle Diagram

- - - - learners use their PRIOR KNOWLEDGE of the language (vocab, morphology, phonology, syntax,..)
      - understand the basic units of the text --> the whole text
      - reading aloud a text --> looking up new words --> translating the text into mother tongue
      - to develop: try to look up and highlight all new words and language use in the text --> idiomatic uses, collocations, grammatical structures, cohesive devices
    - - use BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE
        (including CONTENT, CONTEXT and CULTURE)
        
        knowledge of content
        
        already learn a topic in mother language
        
        knowledge of context and culture
      - to predict or understand the general meaning of a text or of new words they have never met before
      - to develop
        
        broaden knowledge of content, context, culture
        
        read in large quantity and wide range of
        topics, both in mother language and english
  - - - should be done at the very first stage of text reading
      - have a quick look at the title, headings, sub headings, pictures, graphs,...to predict what text might be about
    - - purpose of skimming: find the main idea and supporting ideas of the text as quick as possible
      - look at the introduction, conclusion and the first sentence of each paragraph
      - make an outline of the main ideas and suppoting ideas
    - - reading the text again, find details or specific information
      - signals should pay attention
        
        capital letters
        
        words in bold or italics
        
        numbers
        
        symbols
    - - reinforce the main ideas in an organized way in form of a paragraph, an outline, a chart, a mind map
      - improve writing, speaking