Theme: Teaching Reading at an Advanced Level
CONTENTS
Introduction
. The importance of teaching reading
. Developing reading skills and strategies
. Stages of conducting reading and reading activities
.1 Pre-reading
.2 While-reading
.3 After-reading
. Testing reading
Intoduction
Reading is about understanding written texts. It is a complex activity that involves both perception and thought. Reading consists of two related processes: word recognition and comprehension. Word recognition refers to the process of perceiving how written symbols correspond to one s spoken language. Comprehension is the process of making sense of words, sentences and connected text. Readers typically make use of background knowledge, vocabulary, grammatical knowledge, experience with text and other strategies to help them understand written text.texts can be used for advanced learners for several different purposes:
- developing reading skills and strategies;
- presenting or recycling grammar items;
- extending vocabulary;
- providing modals for writing;
- giving some interesting and useful information for students;
- stimulating oral work.reading can be linked to other skill work, for example writing, speaking or listening. In the process of reading, students will be concerned with the subject-content of what they read and the language in which it is expressed. Both aspects involve comprehension, though of different kinds. Depending on the reading purpose, different strategies and skills will be involved.students move on up the developmental ladder, getting closer and closer to their goals, developing fluency along with a greater degree of accuracy, able to handle virtually any situation in which target language is demanded, they become advanced students. As competence in language continues to build, students can realise the full spectrum of processing, assigning larger and larger chunks to automatic modes and gaining the confidence to put the formal structures of language on the periphery so that focal attention may be given to the interpretation and negotiation of meaning and to the conveying of thoughts and feelings in interactive communication. Some aspects of language, of course, need focal attention for minor corrections, refinement. So the task of the teacher...
