Teaching effective reading skills to college students

Some practical suggestions

Dr. Andrew Finch, 경북대학교 , 사범대학 , 영어교육과

What is reading?

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What is reading?

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What is reading?

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What is reading?

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Why do we read? Information Information/pleasure Pure pleasure Exams !!!

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What do we read? Books Newspapers, Magazines Photocopies, articles Notices Correspondence Forms, Signs Handheld media devices Computer screens Multi-media carriers

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What is the content? Fiction (long and short) Songs Plays Current events, feature articles and essays Academic articles, reports, reviews Warnings, directions Letters, postcards and notes Business letters, solicitations T-shirt messages, bumper stickers Raw data

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What is the content?

Poetry (Auto)biography Schedules Maps Menus Advertisements Announcements Comics Workbook exercises Bibliographic information

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What is the text structure? Charts, graphs, illustrations Isolated lines of text Free form Interlinear notes Point and click images Expository Narrative Headings, subheadings

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What skills do we use? Skimming Scanning Extraction of specific information In-depth (extensive) reading Metacognition

(Hudson, 2007, p. 27)

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Comprehension skills Recalling word meanings Drawing inferences about a meaning of a

word from context Finding answers to questions answered

explicitly or merely in paraphrase Weaving together ideas from content Drawing inferences from content Recognizing a writer’s purpose,

attitude, tone, and mood Identifying a writer’s technique Following the structure of a passage.

(Davis, 1968)

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1: Extensive reading Extensive reading foundation:

www.erfoundation.org/index.html/ Extensive reading pages:

www.extensivereading.net/er/er.html Video of Dr. R. Day’s talk about ER/IR:

www.sendspace.com/file/nq6ydr Rocky Nelson’s resources http://nelson.myfastmail.com/Extensive Rea

ding/ http://nelson.myfastmail.com/Intensive Rea

ding – Content Based/

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2: Graded readers

The aim of graded reading

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• To recycle important and useful wordsand grammar and to aid acquisition

• To provide continuous reading practice• To build reading speed• To be enjoyable• To encourage reading for pleasure• To build DEPTH of knowledge

Literary fiction

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Non-fiction

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Reading at the right level

Students MUST read at their comfortable reading level so they:• can read quickly • can read fluently• can read a lot• can read with very high levels of understanding• can enjoy the reading • can get the reading habit.

If students read something too difficult:• the reading becomes slow• they can’t read much• the students get tired easily• it becomes a form of ‘study’

Reading comics and cartoons

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Comics and cartoons

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Comics and cartoons

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Comics and cartoons

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Cartoons: Tintin

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Using literature: Novels Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol http://www.literature.org/authors/dickens-charles/christmas-carol/ http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/DicChri.html http://www.asksam.com/ebooks/Dickens/Christmas_Carol.asp http://www.online-literature.com/dickens/christmascarol/ http://www.longmankorea.com/detail.aspx?ISBN=0582421209

(graded reader) http://books.mirror.org/gb.dickens.html http://wiredforbooks.org/carol/content.htm (audio) http://welchwrite.com/blog/audio/2008/christmas-carol-2008.mp3

(audio) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hA5T1G7rxg (YouTube video) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwii8AMfgkA&feature=related

(YouTube, part 2) http://www.teachers.tv/video/30574 (Dickens’ Museum)

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Using literature: Drama

Henrik Ibsen: A Doll’s House http://books.google.co.kr/ http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dollhouse/ http://www.gradesaver.com/a-dolls-house/ http://www.enotes.com/dollshouse http://www.bibliomania.com/0/6/322/2393/frameset.html

Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qssF73w6thw

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E-books (Handout)

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Online reading (Handout) English Lit: http://www.english-literature.org/resources/ Fictionwise: http://www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/freebooks.htm Free Books: http://www.e-book.com.au/freebooks.htm Free online books: http://www.freeonlinebooks.org/ Litrix: http://www.litrix.com/authors.htm Manybooks: http://manybooks.net/ Memoware: http://www.memoware.com/ Microsoft: http://www.mslit.com/default.asp?src...inia+Libr ary Microsoft reader: http://www.microsoft.com/Reader/ O'Reilly Open Book: http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/ Online Book Page: http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/ Page by page books: http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/ Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

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Integrated reading Holistic approach All four skills Pre-reading, while-reading, post-reading Graded tasks Critical thinking Problem-solving Online follow up Active English Discussion

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Online newspapers31

Online newspapers

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Online print media34

Blogs

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More blogs36

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Finally … Email: aef@knu.ac.kr Courses: www.finchpark.com/courses Articles: www.finchpark.com/arts PhD Thesis: www.finchpark.com/afe Books: www.finchpark.com/books

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