Teaching reading skills in a foreign language. (Practical language teaching series 9.) By Christine Nuttall. London: Heinemann Educational Books, 1982. Pp. 233

RELC Journal ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-120
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Reading Skills ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Teaching Reading

scholarly journals An Exploration into Teachers’ Perceptions towards the challenges of Teaching Reading Skills using Communicative Language Teaching Approach: Focus on Wolaita Sodo Preparatory School

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Tesfaye Buche Bosha ◽  
Desalegn Youpo Ukute
Keyword(s):  
Reading Skills ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Communicative Language Teaching ◽  
Teaching Approach ◽  
Observation Data ◽  
Teaching Reading ◽  
Preparatory School ◽  
Teachers Perceptions ◽  
Efl Teachers ◽  
Wolaita Sodo

The main purpose of this study is to explore teachers’ perceptions towards the challenges of teaching reading skill using communicative language teaching approach: focus on Wolaita Sodo Preparatory School. Descriptive research design was employed. The data were collected through semi-structured interview and classroom observations. Six grade eleven EFL (English as a Foreign Language) teachers of the Wolaita Sodo Preparatory school were selected as of the study using convenience sampling method. The Interview data were tape recorded and transcribed into textual form and the classroom observation data were noted to analyze. The findings of this study disclosed that EFL teachers have a positive perception in towards teaching/reading skills using communicative language teaching approach but students were negatively perceived in learning/reading using Communicative Language Teaching (CLT). Hence, based on the findings, recommendations were made. In concurrence to this, the researcher recommends that the concerned bodies should give due attention to overcome selected problems which hampers teaching/reading skills using communicative language teaching approach particularly mobilizing EFL teachers through continuous capacity building activity is paramount.

scholarly journals The Effects of Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) on the Reading Comprehension in EFL Classes

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 123
Author(s):  
Ozcan Demirel ◽  
Nadia Ben Amer
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Reading Skills ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Teaching Reading ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
International University ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Methods

This study investigated the effects of Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) on the reading comprehension in EFL classes at proficiency Cyprus Universities. In addition, this study attempted to find out whether the Task-Based Language Teaching has any advantages or disadvantages in teaching reading skills to EFL learners. This study attempted to determine the effects of the Task-Based Language Teaching on the reading comprehension of foreign EFL learners. This study uses both quantitative and qualitative methods collected data from different two universities. The two different universities are Cyprus International University and Mediterranean Karpasia University.

scholarly journals The Process and Purpose of Reading

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rohib Adrianto Sangia
Keyword(s):  
Reading Skills ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Teaching Reading

This paper as a compulsory assignment in Applied Linguistics subjects describes and explains the theories in helping people which deal with language to make the language activities more effective. This opinion and purposes in this material hopefully can help those people which is working or doing the business in language teaching especially teaching for reading skills. Since this paper is emphasizing the language teaching particularly in teaching reading skills, the theories that will be presented comes from H.G Widdowson from his journal “The Process and Purposes of Reading” in Exploration in Applied Linguistics.

scholarly journals An Extensive Reading Approach to Language Teaching

2008 ◽  
Vol 4 (1-2 (5)) ◽  
pp. 70-75
Author(s):  
Lili Karapetyan
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Reading Skills ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Extensive Reading ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
Leading Position ◽  
Teaching Programs

Reading, together with its various expressions, holds a leading position in foreign language teaching programs due to its huge educational significance. The article studies the role of extensive reading in language teaching, the ways of its application as well as its contribution to language teaching as a whole. Research suggests that extensive reading not only contributes to the improvement of reading skills of students, but also enriches their vocabulary and helps them perceive the new meanings of the already familiar words more easily.

scholarly journals Belles-Lettres Reading Strategies in the Process of Foreign Language Teaching

2015 ◽  
pp. 287-294
Author(s):  
A. S. Komarov
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Reading Instruction ◽  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Reading Skills ◽  
Language Instruction ◽  
Communication Process ◽  
Teaching Reading ◽  
High Productivity ◽  
Subjective Approach ◽  
Belles Lettres

The article is devoted to some of the teaching strategies based on the peculiarities of belles-lettres text. The author of the article analyses the peculiarities of the belles-lettres text which exert influence on the process of teaching reading skills and thus should be taken into account by foreign language teachers in their work with this type of text. The author argues that teaching belles-lettres reading skills should be centered on the five-level communication process between writer and reader. The teacher's aim is to create or adjust a system of reading instruction within the five levels so that he/she could improve students' reading skills. In the article, it is stated that the process of teaching reading skills should be congruent with the process of interpersonal communication between writer and reader. The author outlines the content of the teacher's approach to the work with this type of text within the process of foreign language instruction. The author describes two approaches to teaching belles-lettres reading skills as well as shows the prospects for the subjective approach. He also states high productivity and effectiveness of the subjective approach in teaching foreign languages. The article shows the importance of involving students who specialize in sciences into the process of belles-lettres reading while studying a foreign language for specific purposes.

THE PECULIARITIES OF TEACHING AN IDEOGRAPHIC LANGUAGE. TEACHING READING IN CHINESE

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 538
Author(s):  
Mariia Moshurenko ◽  
Stanislav Naumenko ◽  
Nataliia Ruda ◽  
Nataliia Siekina ◽  
Kateryna Zhukova
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Chinese Language ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Teaching Reading ◽  
Teaching Of Reading ◽  
Hieroglyphic Writing ◽  
Reading Chinese

Reading plays an important role in the educational process, as it is one of the central spheres in communication in a foreign language. However, reading Chinese has its own peculiarities, because the method of writing differs from the phonetic languages. The paper is devoted to the teaching reading in Chinese for beginners, using the peculiarities of an ideographic language. The outlining of these peculiarities and the development of exercises, with the consideration of these peculiarities are relevant, because most of the methodological developments are devoted to the teaching of reading phonetic languages. The paper aims to determine the peculiarities of teaching reading in Chinese, which are caused by the ideographic character of the hieroglyphic writing. The developed system of exercises for teaching reading in the Chinese language for beginners is provided. The exercises enable learners to get acquainted with the hieroglyphic writing, to build a grapheme competence and to learn how to write any character.  

Teaching reading skills in a foreign language

System ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 188-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sherwood Bruce Arne
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Reading Skills ◽  
Teaching Reading

scholarly journals Using Films in Vocabulary Teaching of Turkish as a Foreign Language

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Adem İşcan
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Foreign Students ◽  
Reading Skills ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Language Learners

The use and utility of auditory and visual tools in language teaching is a common practice. Films constitute one of the tools. It has been found that using films in language teaching is also effective in the development of vocabulary of foreign language learners. The literature review reveals that while films are used in foreign language teaching and there are many studies in this subject, very few studies have been done in our country and this is not enough. In this study, the development of Turkish vocabulary of foreign students through films has been discussed. Examples of activities aimed at the development of reading skills through films that teachers can use in foreign language are presented.

scholarly journals Reading skills in a foreign language as a stage of professional competence formation

KANT ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 226-230
Author(s):  
Dmitry Vladimirovich Zhabin ◽  
Valentina Jurievna Ivanova
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Reading Skills ◽  
Professional Competence ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Language Text

The paper deals with the need for new methods in foreign language teaching to students of non-linguistic universities. The article presents a strategy to optimize the foreign language lesson. As an example an algorithm with authentic technical text in German is considered. It makes possible to change the work with foreign language text. It is proposed to substitute the standard tasks to the practice-oriented, which purpose is to teach students to understand the text.

scholarly journals Teacher competencies in supporting reading in English as a foreign language

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 73
Author(s):  
Melanie Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Reading Skills ◽  
Teacher Education Program ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Teaching Reading ◽  
Learning To Read ◽  
Current State ◽  
Basic Reading Skills

<span style="line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;" lang="EN-US">Based on a small-scale survey and discussion with teacher-learners in a postgraduate teacher education program in Poland, this paper aims to investigate their understanding of ‘learning to read in L2 English’ and the current state of their competencies in teaching reading. Descriptors taken from the European Portfolio for Student Teachers of Languages, EPOSTL, are used are used as criteria to analyze the qualitative data. It is found that while there appears to be awareness and indication of application of some competencies, the participants seem confused as to how to support younger elementary L2 learners in developing basic reading skills and may lack understanding of theories to underpin their practice.</span>

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