1. Reading skills
Week 6 NJ Kang

2. Reading comprehension- based approaches

3. Reading comprehension-based approaches
Almost all!
(Williams and Moran, 1989)
Comprehension in the form of the presentation of text followed by post-reading questions on the text’

4. Definition of comprehension
Understanding writer’s intention.
It’s difficult to match with reader’s and the writer’s intention
Since text does Not have only one meaning but Reflective and multiple meanings (Williams, 1983)
Since people interpret using one’s own Mental representation
Which is Depend on learners’ experiences. (Urquhart, 1987)

5. Interpretation Not Comprehension
So it has to be
Interpretation Not Comprehension

6. Why? Understanding text meaning =mental representation
Each individual’s knowledge is the result of constant conceptual reformulation through various experiences,
Dog, apple, knive?

7. Aims of comprehension questions
To check comprehension
To facilitate comprehension
Simply to ensure that the learner reads the text. (Williams and Moran, 1989)

8. What if, Problems occur before or during reading?
Reality
What if, Problems occur before or during reading?

9. Expectation of comprehension checking
May causes
reading problems
by encouraging a studial reading habit which in fact inhibits the reading process (Williams and Moran, 1989; Masuhara, 1998; tomlinson, 2000)

10. Pre-, and during comprehension check up activities are needed
Solutions
Pre-, and during comprehension check up activities are needed
Interpretations,
than comprehension. (Masuhara, 1998, neuroscience and cognitive psychology)

11. So what did you learn from reading this section?
Need comprehension checkup before and during
Before reading  activate one’s knowledge and experience to understand the text.
During reading  activate learners’ understanding of the writer’s intention
After reading  language based comprehension checkup, interpretation opportunities.
Do we have that kind?

12. Language focused Vocabulary Reading with listening Make a sentence
Comprehension check up questions
Writing sentence