READING
Reading is a essential part when we are learning a language becuase it is a receptive skill; it involves
responding to the text. We need to
understand the language of a text at a word level, sentence level or whole-text
level. in the TKT book says that "Connected text is referred to as discourse, and it is connected by
grammar and vocabulary and/or our knowledge of the world"; that means that in order to understand better the text we need
to have to see the connection between two sentences (coherence). The grammatical
links between sentences (cohesion) helps to see connection, too. Sentences also
are linking by conjunctions.
Reading also
has sub-skills:
Scanning: *reading
for specific information
*reading for detail
*deducing meaning from
context
*understanding text structure
Skimming: *reading
for gist
*inferring
*predicting
Reading is an excellent technique to get
Students’ attention. What is more we can learn vocabulary, grammar and even
pronunciation by listening to Audiobooks. Also, they can understand the
individual sentences and the organizational structure of a piece of writing.
They can comprehend ideas, follow arguments, and detect implications.
However, even if they do not understand each
word and do not have a dictionary to look it up, they will understand the
general idea of the text. To the same token, after reading extensively they
will also acquire unconsciously a large vocabulary and become a better reader. As
a result, teachers should encourage them to read not just at the classroom but also
outside of it. However, for each reading teachers also may apply pictures
related to it, use puppets for children and ask them to perform it.
References:
- YouTube Pre-Reading Activities
- Journal.acs-cam.org.uk
Dear Jessy
ReplyDeleteYour blog about reading really catch my attention, and I agree with you when you said that "we can learn vocabulary, grammar and even pronunciation by listening to Audiobooks", because reading is a very important skill that helps us too much in order to increase our knowledge.