rences in their characteristics) Issues and their Features or ResultsA text that critiques a movie (what's right or wrong with it and why) Problems and their SolutionsA text about an historical era (political, economic, social issues and how they were addressed) Events and their ImpactA news story about a current event (what happened / who was affected and how)
The structure of a guided matrix requires precise cognitive and linguistic work; learners have to note the way the text expresses information according to the categories established by the matrix. Such precision helps establish a correlation between the learners 'horizon of expectation and semantic and syntactic elements of the foreign language texts.
Advantages of a Guided Matrixadvantage of using a guided matrix as a task to structure reading is that learners are likely to reread parts of a text (or re-view sections of a film) in order to find the information they want to include. In so doing, elements of syntax and semantics are reinforced in context, as part of values ??and expectations found in the given foreign culture. Such incidental contact will prepare learners for more detailed contact with the world from which the text stems, and help them make the transition from reading to writing.
Reviewof Formwho read a FL text for meaning need to
· know every word in the passage and be able to translate it.
· wait until second year to read anything but edited texts.
· apply L1 strategies such as skimming for information.
· stick to very short passages
. When reading for information in initial (assigned) reading, knowing the genre of a text is important
?? because different genres structure and present textual information in different, often predictable ways.
· because genre identification is the goal of initial reading.
· because a genre has the same features and cultural roles in all languages.
· because the reader will know whether or not the text will be interesting.
. Pre-reading activities are somewhat like online searches because
· they involve extensive reading.
· they involve tracing an idea by looking for other words that relate to that idea.
· they are can be very boring.
· they don't ask readers to do very much.
. In this module we suggest that the instructor's role in pre-reading is
· to tell everyone what the text is about.
· to tell the class why it is important to read this text.
· to help students brainstorm briefly about the topic and skim for and confirm words related to that topic.
· remind the class that they will be expected to have read the text by the following class hour.
The Importance of Rereading
Rereading consists of on-going and repeated encounters with a text, guided by a particular task so that segments of the text get revisited and rethought. Rereading is the most effective type of reading, especially of foreign language texts, b...
