Goals
and Techniques for Teaching Reading
Teacher want to
produce students who, even if they do not complete control of the grammar or an
extensive lexicon, can fend for themseleves in communication situations. In
this case reading, this means producing students who can use reading strategies
to maximize their comprehension of text, identify relevant information, and
tolerate less than word-by-word comprehension. To accomplish this goal, instructor
focus on the process of reading rather than on it is product.
a)
They develop students’ awareness of
reading strategies by asking students to think and talk about how they read in
native language.
b) They
allow students to practice the full repertoire of reading strategies by using
authentic reading tasks. They encourage students to read to learn an have authentic purpose of reading by
giving students some choice of reading material.
c) When
working with reading tasks in class, they show students the strategies that
will work best for reading assigments. They explain how and why students should
use the strategies
d) They
have students practice readung strategy in class and ask them to practise
outside of class in their reading assigments; they encourage students to be
conscious of what are they are doing while they complete reading assigments.
e) They
encourage students evaluation their comprehension and self-report their use
strategies. They build comprehension checks into in class reading assigments,
and periodically review how and when to use particular strategies.
f) They
encourage development of reading skill and the use of reading strtegies by
using the target language to convoy instructions and courserelated information
in written form : office hours, homework, assigments, and test content.
g)
They do not assume that the students
will transfer strategy use from one task to another. The explicitly mention how
a particular strategy can be used in a different type of reading task of with
another skill.
