People seem to think that reading means just starting at the beginning when you just start to go word by word, when you stop to look up every unknown word until you come to the end. Of course to enrich your linguistic knowledge you may act so but if you intend to use reading for content information you should move past the idea of looking up all the new words as it means that you use bottom – up strategy as linguists have noted, instead you should use top- down strategy.
The thing is that it will be more effective to help students transfer the method they use when reading in their native language to reading anything in their native language. Reading is an important means of learning a foreign language as while doing it you also make language input. By reading variety of materials pupils obtain not only vocabulary but also get to learn the ways in which certain language elements- let’s say grammar, sentence structure… are used to work together in order to convey the meaning. In my teaching practice I usually use a few strategies to gain success in teaching reading process. They are; previewing, predicting, skimming and scanning, check comprehension …
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