Teaching Reading to A1,A2 level learners Djabbarova Sh. Lecture outline: References

The reading purpose must be authentic

• Students must be reading for reasons that make sense and have relevance to them.
• To identify relevant reading purposes, ask students how they plan to use the language they are learning and what topics they are interested in reading and learning about. Give them opportunities to choose their reading assignments, and encourage them to use the library, the Internet, and foreign language newsstands and bookstores to find other things they would like to read.

The reading approach must be authentic

• Students should read the text in a way that matches
• the reading purpose,
• the type of text, and
• the way people normally read.
• This means that reading aloud will take place only in situations where it would take place outside the classroom, such as reading for pleasure. The majority of students’ reading should be done silently.

4.Stages and exercises for development of reading skills.

• At the primary stage reading is considered as the goal and means of teaching, because student must be able to recognize the English script, they must be familiar with combination of letters in the spelling of words, and be able to recognize words. For this purpose reading and writing mechanics are developed together.
• By mechanics we usually refer to
• letter and sound recognition,
• letter/sound discrimination,
• word recognition, and basic rules of spelling,
• punctuation, and capitalization,
• recognition of whole sentences and paragraphs.

Reading subskills (mechanics) involve rapid, precis and conscious processing, such as letter and word identification and translating written symbols into corresponding sounds. They allow to the students recognize words and grammatical forms rapidly and automatically.

• Reading subskills (mechanics) involve rapid, precis and conscious processing, such as letter and word identification and translating written symbols into corresponding sounds. They allow to the students recognize words and grammatical forms rapidly and automatically.
• The higher skills enable them to comprehend, synthesise, interpret, and evaluate the text.
• Thus, at the beginning stage student learn mechanics of reading aloud and comprehend the content of the given simple texts. But the advanced level is directed only to reading for comprehension of the texts.