Reading skill

ALEXA FLORES
LUCAS SALAS

Definition of Reading.

Habit, product, process, activity, way of

understanding.

The particular way in which you understand a book.

We learn to read when we are children.

We never stop reading

It is a receptive skill, but we have to be active in

order to understand a text.

It help us to acquire a second language.

Bottom-up & Top-down processing.

Bottom-up

Top-down

Recognize a
multiplicity of
linguistic signals
(parts of speech)

Conceptually driven
strategies for
comprehension.

Approaches to reading
which emphasise textbased features at word
and sentence level.

Emphasis on the
background
knowledge and values
which the reader
brings to reading.

Interactive Reading

schemat
a

Ways of reading

Scanning
It is a strategy used
by all readers to find
relevant information
in a text.
to look quickly but
not very carefully at
a document.
Decoding: understand
the meaning of sth.

Skimming
It is a prediction
strategy used to
determine the main
idea of a text.

to read quickly in
order to find a
particular point or
the main points.

Comprehension: the
ability to understand.

Ways of reading

Intensive reading

Extensive reading.
Reading long texts.

It involves the top-down

process (meaning).

Journal articles

Technical reports

To
To
lear

lear
n
n

To read in detail

Longer essays
Short stories

Books
Fu
Fu
n

Schemata or background knowledge theory

Two categories

Schema-ta

Information
Knowledge

Emotions

Experience

Culture of the reader

Content

What we know about people,

culture, the world and
universe

Formal

Our own knowledge about discourse

stucture.(grammar)

Discourse: the use of

language in order to produce
meaning.

Role of affect and culture

Culture

Affect

It is refering to
peoples believes
and how they
affect in the
reading process.

Is when emotions affect in our reading

process.
Feeling such as love, self-esteem, among
others.

Characteristics of written language

Permanence: it gives the opportunity to return again.
Processing Time: we are able to read in our own rate
Distance: Physical + temporal = Other place + Other Time
Orthography: Describing intonation with adjectives
Complexity: Different types of clauses and conjunctions
Vocabulary: We have more time to think when writing
Formality: prescribed forms (logical order) + rhetorical
(Organisation)

Why is reading important

Most of the people include reading as the last skill

(as in English and Spanish), but this is the most
important skills because reading involves
speaking, listening and writing together as one.

When you start to reading is difficult to stop to do

it, because human beings are curious and the only
way to find answers is reading.

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aproach to Language Pedagogy.

Brown, D. (2004). Language Assessment: Principles and

classroom practices.

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