TEACHING RECEPTIVE SKILLS

There are 2 teaching receptive skills

• Listening

• Reading

Reading

Reading is useful for language acquisition.Provided that students more or less understand what they read. Reading also has a positive effect on students’ vocabulary knowledge, on their spelling and writing.

Kinds of reading

Types of written language

• nonfiction:reports and essays
• Fiction : novels and poetry
• Letters
• Diaries/journals
• Memos
• Messages
• Announcements
• Newspaper
• Academic writing: reports and books
• Schedules
• invitations

Characteristics of written language

Reading comprehension

Reading comprehension is the act of understanding what you are reading. While the definition can be simply stated the act is not simple to teach, learn or practice. Reading comprehension is an intentional, active, interactive process that occurs before, during and after a person reads a particular piece of writing.

Strategies for reading comprehension

• Identify the purpose in reading.
• Use graphemic rules and patterns to aid in bottom-up decoding.
• Use efficient silent reading techniques for relatively rapid comprehension
• Skim the text for main ideas.
• Scan the text for specific information.
• Use semantic mapping or clustering
• Guess when you aren’t certain
• Analize vocabulary
• Distinguish between literal and implied meanings
• Capitalize on discourse markers to process relationships