UNIT 5 - READING

This unit is mainly focused in one of the four important skills which is Reading. Reading is a receptive skill as well as listening. It involves making sense of any written text, maybe to get information from real life situations. Another definition given by Al-Mahrooqi & Roscoe (2014), It’s that reading is very important in academic settings and for getting information. In addition, for Newman and Roskos (1993), in Reading is relevant to know vocabulary because learners will comprehend better a text. However, there are some subskills that reading has such as the following: scanning (read for specific information), skimming ( read for general ideas), inferring (from pictures or context), deducing meaning from context, and predicting (before begin Reading). Moreover, reading can be done silently or loudly. Finally, it´s important to mention that there are three essentials stages in Reading: pre/while/post-reading, and each one of them has their own strategies to develop learners´ reading skills. All in all, I would use many different reliable readings, the ones students find interesting and feel motivated to read and learn. Besides, I’d apply Jigsaw activities to make the class interactive.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Spratt, M., Pulverness, A., & Williams, M. (2011). The TKT Teaching Knowledge Test Course Modules 1, 2 and 3. United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.

Al-Mahrooqi, R., & Roscoe, A. (2014, February 1). Focusing on EFL Reading . Retrieved from ProQuest Ebook Central: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/uta-ebooks

Newman and Roskos, (1993) Best Practices in Reading: A 21st Century Skill Update | Reading Rockets. (2017). Readingrockets.org. Retrieved 14 April 2018, from http://www.readingrockets.org/article/best-practices-reading-21st-century-skill-update