READING
The chapter 5 is about reading skill which is a receptive
skill there are some steps, strategies and activities to make students develop
according to the types of it. Within the category of silent reading, one
encounters intensive and extensive reading. Intensive reading is carried out to get a
general understanding of the text; through it we can pay attention to the
grammatical forms, discourse
markers and other details with the purpose of understanding literal
meaning. This type of reading has indeed beneficial to language learners as it
helps them understand vocabulary by deducing meaning of words in context. Moreover, it helps with
retention of information for long periods of time and knowledge resulting from
intensive reading persists in your long term memory. On the other hand, extensive reading
involves reading for pleasure. That is why it may involve two specific subskills
of reading, scanning
for key or specific
details or skimming
for the essential meaning to know what the text is about. The process to
develop it is: predicting,
pre-reading, reading and post reading in which teachers can provide certain
tasks during this phase.
Therefore, as teachers, we
have to plan our teaching reading class carefully by providing different
activities during the process of it and even choose the appropriate text or reading
related to the real context in order to make them get involved with it according
to the student ´s needs, where learners enhance and develop this skill.
References:
Oxford University Press (2013) India-Strategies for Teaching Reading 1: Teaching
Reading to Young Learners from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MS-5k-yj2w
Berardo,
S. A. (2006). THE USE OF AUTHENTIC MATERIALS IN THE TEACHING OF READING.
Reading, 6(2).
Retrieved
from: http://www.readingmatrix.com/articles/berardo/article.pdf
Reading is an important skill that is not always easy for students. In this case, teachers should help them using different strategies to encourage them to read. Additionally, teaching students the reading sub-skills make the reading part easier for them, All this information is a good resource for teachers who are starting in hard hard job.
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