Reading presentation

1. Reading Skill
Camila Foulon
Arnoldo Cabrera

2. What is reading
READING
Decode
Decipher
Identify
Articulate
Speak
PronounceUnderstand
Respond
Meaning
Nuttall (2005)

3. Summing up an according to Nuttall (2005)
ideas:
Reading is an interactive process between the
reader and the text, in which the reader decodes or
decipher words in a certain language in order to get
a meaning or message. It is also a tool to practice
speaking skills (pronunciation, fluency, intonation,
etc).

4. PROCESS OF READING
Figure 1, taken from Nuttall (2005)

5. ACQUISITION OF READING
· After acquiring a language, the mean to acquire reading is to read.
· Learners should be exposed to selected reading materials in order to acquire
reading successfully (Xiao, 2006)
· Xiao (2006) proposes seven principles in order to select adequate reading input.
1.- The principle of moderate difficulty 2.- The principle of the-more-the-better
3.- The principle of applicable content 4.- The principle of diversity
5.- The principle of linguistic authenticity 6.- The principle of sense of success

6. Schema Theory and Reading
“Is abstract because it does not relate to any particular experience, although it
derives from all the particular experiences we have had” (Nuttall, 2005)

7. Top-down & Bottom-up processing
Inferences, using
our background
knowledge to
interpret
information
TOP-DOWN
Build meaning by
examining the most
important parts of a
text.
BOTTOM-UP

8. Intensive Reading & Extensive Reading
Comprehension of the text
through Language-focused
input
Fluency development through
Meaning- focused input

9. Types of reading tasks
● Pronominal questions
task(who-what-when-
how or why)
● Yes/no questions task
● True false sentences
tasks
● Multiple-choice task
● Sentence completion
● Translation tasks
● Précis

10. Benefits (Nation 2009)
Extensive
Improves language skills
Improves writing skills
Improves Vocabulary
Develops positive attitudes
towards reading
Intensive
Improves comprehension skills
Increases reading strategies

11. Conclusions
# Reading is a process
# The reader decodes a message
# It is centered in meaning
# It helps us to develop other language skills

12. References
Nation, P. (2007). The four strands. International Journal of Innovation in Language
Learning and Teaching, 1(1), 2-13.
Nation, I. S. P. (2008). Teaching ESL/EFL reading and writing. Routledge.
Nuttall, C. (2005). Teaching Reading Skills in a Foreign Language. Macmillan Education,
Oxford, UK.
Xiao, L. (2006). English Teaching Methodology. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and
Research Press.