1. TEACHING READING
Indawan Syahri
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2. Types of Written Language
Characteristics of Written Language
Micro-skills for Reading Comprehension
Strategies for Reading Comprehension
Types of Classroom Reading Performance
Principles for Designing Interactive Reading Techniques
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3. Types of Written Language
Non-fiction – reports, editorials, essays, articles, reference (dictionary, encyclopedias)
Fiction – novels, short stories, jokes, drama, poetry
Letters – personal, business
Greeting cards
Diaries, journals
Memos (e.g. interoffice memos)
Announcements
Newspapers
Academic writing – research reports, essays, papers, theses
Forms, application
Invitations
Advertisement
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4. Characteristics of Written Language
Permanence
Process time
Distance
Orthography
Complexity
Vocabulary
Formality
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5. Micro-skills for Reading Comprehension (1)
Discriminate among the distinctive graphemes and orthographic patterns of English.
Retain chunks of language of different lengths in short-term memory.
Process writing at a efficient rate of speech to suit the purpose.
Recognize a core of words, and interpret word order patterns and their significance.
Recognize grammatical word classes, systems, patterns, rules, and elliptical forms.
Recognize that a particular meaning may be expressed in different grammatical forms.
Recognize cohesive devices in written discourse and their signaling the relationship between and among clauses.
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6. Micro-skills for Reading Comprehension (2)
Recognize the rhetorical forms of written discourse and their significance for interpretation.
Recognize the communicative functions of written texts, according to form and purposes.
Infer context that is not explicit by using background knowledge.
From events, ideas, etc., described, infer links and connections between events, deduce cause and effects, and detect such relations as main ideas, supporting ideas, new information, given information, generalization, and exemplification.
Distinguish between literal and implied meanings.
Detect culturally specific references and interpret them in a context of the appropriate cultural schemata.
Develop and use a battery of reading strategies, such as scanning and skimming, detecting discourse markers, guessing the meaning of words from the context, and activating schemata for the interpretation of texts
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7. Strategies for Reading Comprehension
Identifying the purpose in reading
Use graphemic rules and patterns to aid in bottom-up decoding (for beginner level)
Use efficient silent reading techniques for relatively rapid comprehension (for intermediate or advanced level)
Skimming
Scanning
Semantic mapping or clustering
Guessing
Vocabulary analysis
Distinguish between literal and implied meanings
Capitalize on discourse markers to produce relationships (p 296)
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8. Types of Classroom Reading Performance
Oral
Silent
Intensive
Linguistic
Content
Extensive
Skimming
Scanning
Global
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9. Principles for Designing Interactive Reading Techniques (1)
Make sure that you don’t overlook the importance of specific instruction in reading skills
Techniques should be intrinsically motivating.
Techniques should utilize authentic language and contexts.
Encourage the development of reading strategies.
Include both bottom-up and top-down techniques.
Consider subdividing your techniques into pre-reading, during reading, after-reading phases.
Build in some evaluative aspect to your techniques.
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10. Reading Principles (Hammer, 2007)
Encourage students to read as often and as much as possible
The students need to be engaged with what they are reading
Encourage students to respond to the content of a text (and explore their feelings about it), not just concentrate on its construction
Prediction is a major factor in reading
Match the task to the topic when using intensive reading texts
Good teachers exploit reading texts to the full
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11. Thank you
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