Glossary audiolingual teaching

Reading texts should meet the following requirements:
Interesting and have something new for the learners.
Deal mostly with the life of people whose language pupils’ study to achieve the cultural aim.
Be of educational value.
Easy enough for pupils’ comprehension to get pleasure from reading.
Should help pupils in enriching their knowledge of the language, in extending so-called potential vocabulary.
While reading pupils are taught to perform the following “acts”:
To anticipate the subject of the text. This may be done through the title and skimming are “selective reading”
To search for facts in the text. This is done through before – questions and other assignments phrases and sentences by his own for the purpose. All this results in better comprehension. In this way they are trained to give a summary of the text read.
To interpret the text. Pupils have to acquire necessary habits in interpreting the text (evaluating, giving their opinion).
Reading is an interactive process that goes on between the reader and the text, resulting in comprehension. The text presents letters, words, sentences, and paragraphs that encode meaning. The reader uses knowledge, skills, and strategies to determine what that meaning is.


Types of reading
Scanning -This is looking over a text quickly to get a specific piece of information.
Skimming - Looking over the text quickly to get a general idea of the content. Your eyes move quite fast, taking in titles of chapters, their beginnings and ends, and the first sentences of paragraphs.
Light Reading -This is reading fairly quickly without concentrating too hard or worrying about every single word. We often use it when reading an enjoyable novel.
Study Reading - Study reading involves thinking about what is being read so that it is understood and can be recalled. It needs to be worked at, with time for reflection, thought, analysis, criticism, comparison, notes made, points highlighted and emphasized, arguments followed and evaluated, the whole summarized.