Ministry of the higher and secondary special education of the republic of uzbekistan urgench state university

The use of authentic materials benefits the students that seems to be great to help 
them to improve their reading skills. Authentic materials create the interest of 
reading among the students and allow them to participate with more enthusiasm 
in reading. In schools, the authentic materials such as textbooks are effective to 
encourage the students to read according to their needs and requirements (Rao, 
2019). Furthermore, Berardo (2006) as cited in Namaziandost et al. (2021) claims 
that the use of authentic materials benefits the students to expose themselves to 
the real language that has been used in real context. In addition, authentic 
materials help to motivate the students, giving the sense of achievement if the 
students understand what they have read and enhance the students to do further 
reading. For instance, reading story books, comics, magazines and newspapers.
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One of the main reason for using authentic materials in the classroom is once outside 
the “safe”, controlled language learning environment, the learner will not encounter 
the artificial language of the classroom but the real world and language how it is 
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really used. The role of the teacher is not to delude the language learner but to 
prepare him, giving the awareness and necessary skills so as to understand how the 
language is actually used. knowledge is inadequate.
Top-Down processing is the opposite, where a global meaning of the text is obtained, 
through “clues” in the text and the reader’s good schema knowledge. This is often 
associated with a good reader, who does not read word for word but quickly and 
efficiently. The most comprehensive description of the reading process are interactive 
models, “…