What are the four language skills?
Reading, writing, listening and speaking.
What do listening and reading have in common?
They are receptive skills.
To make sense of the written text, we need to understand the language of the text at word level, sentence level or whole-text level. TRUE or FALSE?
True
A text is usually longer than just a word or sentence. It often contains a series of sentences. Connected text is referred to as ...
discourse.
What do we call the sense of connection between two sentences?
Coherence
What do we call the grammatical links between sentences?
Cohesion
It involves glancing through a text to get a general idea of what it is about.
Reading for gist or skimming
It involves getting the meaning out of every word and out of the links or relationships between words or sentences.
Reading for detail / Intensive reading
This is a skill readers sometimes use to get meaning from a text. They work out what the writer's opinion on a topic is or what his/her feeling is.
Inferring
It involves reading the words around an unknown word or thinking about the situation the unknown word is used in to try and work out its meaning.
Deducing meaning from context
Using clues before reading, to guess what a text may be about.
Predicting
It is sometimes called reading for pleasure and involves reading long pieces of text, for example, a story or an article.
Extensive reading
Name four different text types.
letters, articles, postcards, stories, information brochures, leaflets, poems, etc.
How can we help learners transfer their reading skills to reading in English?
Pre-teaching vocabulary, encouraging them to predict text structure, doing lead-in activities, brainstorming, etc.
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