READING SKILL 2

Reading skill

Reading is the receptive skill in the written mode. It can develop independently of listening and speaking skills, but often develops along with them, especially in societies with a highly-developed literary tradition. Reading can help build vocabulary that helps listening comprehension at the later stages, particularly.
Micro-skills

Here are some of the micro-skills involved in reading. The reader has to:


* decipher the script. In an alphabetic system or a syllabary, this means establishing a relationship between sounds and symbols. In a pictograph system, it means associating the meaning of the words with written symbols.
* recognize vocabulary.
* pick out key words, such as those identifying topics and main ideas.
* figure out the meaning of the words, including unfamiliar vocabulary, from the (written) context.
* recognize grammatical word classes: noun, adjective, etc.
* detect sentence constituents, such as subject, verb, object, prepositions, etc.
* recognize basic syntactic patterns.
* reconstruct and infer situations, goals and participants.
* use both knowledge of the world and lexical and grammatical cohesive devices to make the foregoing inferences, predict outcomes, and infer links and connections among the parts of the text.
* get the main point or the most important information.
* distinguish the main idea from supporting details.
* adjust reading strategies to different reading purposes, such as skimming for main ideas or studying in-depth.


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READING SKILLS

READING SKILLS

1. Choose your reading material carefully, so that you see suitable vocabulary being used in context.

2. Start off with reading material which is not too overwhelming. either in size, or with vocabulary which is too difficult to guess the meaning from the context.

3. When reading a new book, read one page without looking at the dictionary, then summarise that page in your mind before continuing to the next page. If you cannot summarise it satisfactorily, look up a maximum of ten words in the dictionary to confirm that your guess is right. If you cannot do this, look for an easier book.

RECOMMENDED READING MATTER

NEWSPAPERS

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Easiest for non-native speakers to understand: Quality English Newspapers, eg: The Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Daily Express
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Well-written, but often difficult due to liberal use of phrasal verbs: The Daily Mail
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Often difficult due to slang content and phrasal verbs: The Mirror, The Sun

PUBLICATIONS CONTAINING FORMAL OR PLAIN ENGLISH

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Encyclopaedias
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Traditional Books
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Books by Somerset Maugham can be read by students from intermediate upwards.
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Books by Charles Dickens, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie contain a lot of difficult vocabulary and are only suitable for Advanced students.


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IMPROVE YOUR READING SKILL

IMPROVE YOUR READING SKILL

Here some tips to improve your reading skill

1. Read English newspaper everyday because it will train your ability in understanding an article
2. Don't read word by word, but read sentence by sentence.
3. Try not using a dictionary
4. Remember some speciall expression in special term. Such as economic vocabulary, medical term and other
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by: Baitul Ulum
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