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This document discusses effective reading skills for college students. It begins by defining reading and exploring why people read and what formats they read. It then examines the content, structure, and skills involved in reading. Specific comprehension skills are outlined as well as approaches like extensive and integrated reading. Suggestions are provided for using graded readers, literature, comics/cartoons, ebooks, online newspapers and blogs to develop reading abilities. Effective reading is presented as involving practicing speed and fluency while maintaining understanding through enjoyable materials at appropriate levels.
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- 1. Teaching effective reading skills to college students Some practical suggestions Dr. Andrew Finch, 경북대학교 , 사범대학 , 영어교육과
- 6. Why do we read? Information Information/pleasure Pure pleasure Exams !!! 6
- 7. What do we read? Books Newspapers, Magazines Photocopies, articles Notices Correspondence Forms, Signs Handheld media devices Computer screens Multi-media carriers 7
- 8. 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 8
- 9. What is the content? Poetry (Auto)biography Schedules Maps Menus Advertisements Announcements Comics Workbook exercises Bibliographic information 9
- 10. What is the text structure? Charts, graphs, illustrations Isolated lines of text Free form Interlinear notes Point and click images Expository Narrative Headings, subheadings 10
- 11. What skills do we use? Skimming Scanning Extraction of specific information In-depth (extensive) reading Metacognition (Hudson, 2007, p. 27) 11
- 12. 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) 12
- 13. 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 Reading/ http://nelson.myfastmail.com/Intensive Reading – C 12:0013
- 14. Class library 14
- 16. The aim of graded reading 16 • To recycle important and useful words and 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
- 18. Movies 18
- 19. 19 Non-fiction
- 20. 20 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’
- 21. Reading comics and cartoons 21
- 26. 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) 26
- 27. 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 27
- 29. 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 29
- 30. 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 30
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- 35. Blogs 35
- 36. More blogs 36
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- 38. 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 38
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