9. We should be specific about the micro or macroskills and reading strategies we want to assess and select those assessment techniques which best suit that particular skill
10. Brown (2007) suggests four types of reading with their related assessment tool
12. 2. Selective reading: multiple choice tasks, sentence-level cloze tasks, matching tasks, grammar or vocabulary editing tasks, gap fill exercises
13. 3. Interactive reading: discourse-level cloze tasks, comprehension questions, cues for short-answers, re-ordering or sequencing tasks, responding to charts, graphs and other non-verbal illustrations
15. Sensitizing is subcategorized intio: ◉ making inferences ◉understanding relations within the sentence ◉linking senteces and ideas
16. Going from skimming to skanning includes: ◉predicting ◉previewing ◉anticipation ◉skimming ◉scanning
17. ◉Going from skimming to scanning
18. ◉Improving reading speed
19. ◉ Sensitizing
20. Grellet (1981) identifies 3 main strategies to develop reading skills:
21. Research into reading
22. 5. Link reading to other language skills.
23. 4. Sequence and integrate texts and tasks
24. 3. Identify linguistic elements
25. 2. Identify texts and tasks
26. 1. Decide overall purpose
27. Steffensen compared two situations. She looked at the ability of her readers to recover meaning from two texts. Steffensen found out that the North American subjects had higher levels of comprehension on the passage describing the North American wedding and Indian subjects did better on the passage describing the Indian wedding.
28. Good readers in a first language will be able to transfer their skills to the second language. However, it has been found that L1 reading skills does not predict second language reading proficiency.
29. The basic principle behind schema theory is that texts themselves, whether spoken or written, do not carry meaning. Rather they provide signposts or clues to be utilized by learners in reconstructing the original meaning of the text.
30. Cross-cultural aspects of reading comprehension
31. The transfer hypothesis
32. Schema theory
33. ‣Receptive reading: swift reading. ‣Reflective reading: we reflect about what we read. ‣Skim reading: to know what a text is about. ‣Scanning: or searching for specific information. ‣Skimming and scanning are connected in some way, both of them involve reading superficially in order to search for something.
34. ‣To obtain information or curiosity. ‣To obtain instructions. ‣To act or play. ‣To keep in touch or understand. ‣To know when or where something will take place ‣To know what is happening or has happened ‣For enjoyment or pleasure.
35. Different types of reading, Davies (1995)
36. Seven main purposes Rivers and Temperly (1978)
