UNIT 5 READING

UNIT 5 READING

Talking about Reading skill, we can say that it is a receptive skill, like listening.Reading involves making sense of written text. It often contains a series of sentences, as in a letter or even in a postcard.We need to use our knowledge of the world to see the sense connection between these two sentences(coherence). The grammatical links between the sentences(cohesion) also help us see the connection between them.Language instructors are often frustrated by the fact that students do not automatically transfer the strategies they use when reading in their native language to reading in a language they are learning. Instead, they seem to think reading means starting at the beginning and going word by word, stopping to look up every unknown vocabulary item, until they reach the end. When they do this, students are relying exclusively on their linguistic knowledge, a bottom-up strategy. One of the most important functions of the language instructor, then, is to help students move past this idea and use top-down strategies as they do in their native language.

Bibliography:
http://www.nclrc.org/essentials/reading/stratread.htm