Development of reading skills in teaching English

2021 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 204-211
Author(s):  
Artyom Nosko ◽  

The article describes the relevance and significance of developing reading skills in the modern world as a tool for transmission and obtaining of information. The author introduces the algorithms and stages of working with the texts and their implementation at the English language lessons. In this article, the main focus is on using such kinds of reading strategies: in-depth reading, skimming, and scanning in language classes. The article also identifies the importance of using strategies for any kind of the purpose of reading. To successfully understand the text, the learner must master a set of techniques and strategies. The use of strategies is individual, but to choose what strategy applies, the learner must be aware of them. In this case, the questionnaire about using reading strategies at the lesson, to understand the general awareness among 24 8th grade students was proposed. This article is written as additional component for final diploma project.

Author(s):  
Amar Ali Khan ◽  
Manzile Maqsood ◽  
Sajid Umair

English is considered as a universal and global language. It serves as a bridge between different cultures and countries. Owing to its great importance research studies are being carried out across the world in order to find out the best ways of teaching English Language at earlier stages of schooling. One such identified way is balanced literacy. This is a systematic approach towards teaching English not as a subject but as a language. This study was conducted to see the effect of technology infused balanced literacy approach on the learning skills and engagement level of English learners in context of Pakistani schools where English is taught as a second Language. An intervention of six weeks was carried out. During the study the conventional teaching methodology of English was also observed. The results of the study suggest the use of balanced literacy for improvement of reading skills.


2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 96
Author(s):  
AbdulRahman Al Asmari ◽  
Choudhary Zahid Javid

This empirical survey investigates the perceptions of English language teachers towards the role of content schemata in reading comprehension among Saudi EFL learners. Furthermore, it also attempts to explore the use of appropriate classroom strategies employed by English language teachers to activate content schemata to enhance learners’ reading comprehension. A modified Likert-scale strongly-agree to strongly-disagree questionnaire was administered to 61 male and female EFL faculty from English Language Center (ELC), Taif University to generate data. The findings have reinforced that background knowledge of Saudi EFL learners help them significantly in reading faster with better understanding. It has also been reported that pre-reading strategies of brainstorming, classroom discussions about the topic and questioning are the most favored ones to activate Saudi EFL learners’ background knowledge. It has also been learnt that while-reading strategies of directing the students’ attention to signal words, main idea, important phrases, titles, subtitles and effectively linking the target text to their students’ cultural and social experiences also contribute towards reading comprehension. The findings have also revealed that English language teachers consider low English language proficiency and poor reading skills of Saudi ELF leaners as well as the lack of appropriate teaching aids as the major obstacles in activating the content schemata. Several recommendations have been forwarded which have significant pedagogical implications in materializing much sought-after goal of effective ELT in the KSA by ensuring better reading skills among Saudi EFL learners.


2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 83
Author(s):  
Mantra Ida Bagus Nyoman ◽  
Kumara Dewa Gede Agung Gana

Creating an English learning environment in which learners are highly motivated is sometimes very challenging for EFL teachers. Folktales can be useful for facilitating learners in their competence of English language and also for enhancing their cross-cultural awareness. In the field of language teaching, the richness and potential of folktales seems to have been under-utilized in today’s language classes. This paper explores how folktales can be used as a medium of improving students’ reading skills and major benefits in using folktales for teaching English.  A classroom action research was employed to attain the purpose of this study in which two cyclic learning sessions were conducted to improve English learners’ reading skills. Several selected Indonesian folktales were intensively utilized in reading classes. This result of this study indicates that use of folktales by EFL teachers could improve student’ reading skill and widen their vocabulary and at the same time, culture is acquired by the students.


Vestnik ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 277-279
Author(s):  
Р. Тлебалдин ◽  
М. Абиров ◽  
Е. Ергешов ◽  
Ж.Н. Бисенбаева

В статье описываются основные аспекты преподавания иностранного языка в медицинском вузе, раскрывается важность формирования активной базы специальной лексики у обучающихся медицинским специальностям. В данной статье рассматриваются основными недостатками и проблемы в организации языковой подготовки студентов в медицинском вузе, такие как: дефицит времени, отводимого на иностранный язык; низкий уровень языковой компетенции у студентов. В работе подчеркивается, что в процессе преподавания английского языка в медицинском вузе профессиональный текст является основным средством достижения цели учебного процесса - развитие и формирование англоязычной профессиональной компетенции, кроме этого необходимо развивать формирования англоязычной компетенции, необходимо развить навыки устной и письменной коммуникации, а именно - коммуникативную компетенцию, которая реализуется благодаря выполнению таких видов речевой деятельности, как говорение, письмо, аудирование и чтение текста. The article describes the main aspects of teaching a foreign language in a medical university, reveals the importance of forming an active base of special vocabulary among students of medical specialties. This article discusses the main shortcomings and problems in the organization of language training of students in a medical university, such as: lack of time allocated to a foreign language; low level of language competence of students. It is stressed that in the process of teaching English in medical school professional text is the primary means of achieving the objectives of the training process - the development of the English language professional competencies, it is necessary to develop of forming English language competence, it is necessary to develop the skills of oral and written communication, namely, communicative competence, which is realized through the implementation of such kinds of speech activities as speaking, writing, listening and reading text.


Author(s):  
Maryna Bohachyk

The role of reading in the process of formation of communicative competence was analyzed. The essence of the concept of competence in reading was defined. The main factors influencing the effectiveness of formation of reading skills in English were defined (the features of perception of written texts – time spent on text processing and length of the text; psychophysiological and individual age features of the students – visual perception of the text, the features of mental operations – ability to analyze and make the conclusions, memory, in particular, visual, attention, intelligence, ability to use the experience of reading in the native language, motivation, the presence of cognitive interest, the ability to apply different reading strategies, etc.; the characteristics of the text – authentic, semi-authentic, adapted texts, compliance with cognitive interests, age and level of language proficiency of the students, etc.). Different classifications of types of reading and their application at different stages of English language learning were analyzed (by the target: educational and introductory search; by the method of content disclosure: analytical and synthetic; by the participation of the native language: translated and non-translated; by the nature of the implementation of the semantic side of perception and processing of the text: reading with incomplete understanding and reading with full understanding; by the nature of the organization of activity: prepared with the removed difficulties – training and unprepared without previously removed difficulties – control; depending on the length: extensive and intensive; by the fact of relation to the educational process: educational and real; by the way of using a bilingual dictionary: reading with or without a dictionary; by the place of organization of reading: classwork or homework). The features of different reading strategies were analyzed (predicting, monitoring, confirming, connecting, questioning, skimming, scanning, distinguishing, using context clues, paraphrasing or summarizing, visualizing). The features of different stages of learning to read were described (pre-reading, while-reading, after-reading). The requirements for the texts for reading in English were generalized. The levels of comprehension of the texts and typical tasks appropriate for each level was given (fragmentary understanding, general understanding, full understanding, critical understanding).


Author(s):  
Gulden Akbayeva ◽  
Saida Саиможа

In the modern world, the study of foreign languages is very relevant. Because thanks to this, a person acquires many opportunities and a chance to succeed. This is especially true for English language skills. Which is not only one of the necessities for a modern, successful person, but also one of the factors of competitiveness and the quality of education of the whole country. Therefore, at the present stage, special attention is paid to teaching English. And as practice shows, one of the most effective ways to learn a foreign language is the use of various standard programs in teaching English which were analyzed. At the same time the results of experimental and practical work were presented


2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vasilika Rraku

The purpose of this article is to emphasize the effect that the use of reading strategies can have on the improvement of foreign language reading skills. To indicate the effect of reading strategies on reading skills a study was carried out with university students, respectively eleven students of the second year and twelve students of the third year pursuing their English language studies at the University of Tirana. To this purpose, the students were introduced to different kinds of Reading texts and Close exercises in two different sessions. During the first session students were asked to do the exercises relying on their own knowledge about language and reading, and afterwards they were introduced to different kinds of reading strategies which they practiced for nearly a month. During the second session students were asked to do the new exercises based on the reading strategies they had learned. The results of the study pointed to a noticeable improvement of students’ reading skills once they had used reading strategies to do their exercises. As a conclusion, the article aims to point out that reading strategies are essential for the improvement of reading skills and they should be promoted in English language teaching.


2021 ◽  
pp. 2-6
Author(s):  
Margarita del Socorro Centeno Centeno ◽  
Marling del Carmen Rivera Rugama ◽  
Lanier Roberto Sierra Herrera ◽  
Wilmer Geronimo Lagos Reyes

This article was written with the purpose of obtaining information from physical and digital documents, as well as, analyzing the important data used in the literature review of our project, “Storytelling as a Pedagogical Strategy to Teach English Language Vocabulary to Children”. The studies were categorized into four aspects which are ‘study’, ‘focus’, ‘context’ and ‘results. We focused our attention on gathering relevant information to achieve the objectives of this project. Since teaching English in elementary school has been recently implemented in Nicaragua, not enough research has been done in this area. We believe it is necessary to support elementary school with more research about the use of different resources to support English language teaching in this country. One of the weaknesses when learning a second language is that if children have lack of vocabulary, children will have difficulties understanding some explanations in the English language classes. Effectively teaching English will promote better communication and understanding in future English classes. Studies have proven the effectiveness storytelling has in teaching English language vocabulary to children, as well as, how storytelling can be combined with other educational instruments. Studies also found that learning vocabulary is essential to understand the assignments in the English classes and the activities in the English workbooks.


Author(s):  
Waheeb S Albiladi

Research has shown that second language reading is the bridge that leads to developing otherlanguage skills such as speaking, writing, and vocabulary acquisition. Hence, the present studyaimed to explore adult language learners’ perspectives regarding the most effective andbeneficial reading strategies that can be used to develop their reading competency. Using aqualitative research method, the study examined what specific reading strategies languagelearners believe is effective in developing their reading skills. Analysis of the focus groupsrevealed five different reading strategies mentioned by the participants. These strategies were:Reading Aloud, Silent Reading, Shared Reading, Scanning or Skimming, and Timed Reading. Findings suggest that understanding the use of different reading strategies is important, solanguage teachers need to devote more learning time to introduce reading strategies during ESL classes.


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