Lecture teaching reading to a1 level learners lecture outline

LECTURE 9.

TEACHING READING TO A1 LEVEL LEARNERS

Lecture outline:

1. Reading is type of speech activity

2. Types of reading.

3. Reading as a process.

Key words: reading, graphic language system, extracting information, process of perception, process of understanding, technical, sense, skimming reading, scanning reading, reading for details, skimming reading, linguistic competence, discourse competence, sociolinguistic competence, strategic competence, read extensively, integrate information, flexible reading style, skills interacting:

Reading is regarded as voice activity aimed at the perception and comprehension of written language. The motive for reading as an activity is communication, and reading goal - to extract information.

Like any speech activity, depends on the development of reading skills. Learn to read - it means to master the skill and ability to communicate the visual symbols of listened, relates letters and letter combinations with sounds and visual images, and pronounced words with their meaning.

Reading as a communication process is the need to know:

1. Graphic language system;

2. Methods of extracting information.

Therefore, in the process of reading stand 2 main interrelated characteristics:

1. Process of perception of the printed text;

2. The process of understanding readable.

Hence the need to train the 2 sides of the reading:

1. Technical (mastering graphics system).

2. Sense (mastering the ability to understand to read).

Questions: how to teach so that students master the technical side and semantics of the text?

In the process of learning a foreign language at school, reading, and speaking as the main aims of teaching.

In the first case, students must master reading as a source of information, in the second - to use reading for better assimilation of language and speech material.

Requirements of the program

By the end of teaching reading students should be able to read simple texts of socio-political, scientific and popular literature, and adapted texts of fiction.