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Articles on reading What kind of questions should you ask your learners about the texts they read? Read our writers' ideas below. |
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Using texts constructively: what are texts for?Text use may seem a dull topic after all the exciting matters that other guest writers have dealt with recently. |
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Reading out loudAs a teacher I had always perceived 'reading aloud' as a 'taboo' in the EFL classroom since it focuses specifically on a 'bottom-up' approach where learners can fall into traps of worrying about 100% comprehension or simply read aloud without understanding the text. |
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Teaching the tale: language and memoryA feature that is common both to language teaching and to traditional folk and fairy tales is the repetition of phrases or ‘language chunks’. |
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Using texts constructively 2: intensive input-output workThis is the second of Michael Swan's articles for TeachingEnglish, in which he looks at the role of texts in the learning process. |
Using news articlesTopical news stories are a great source of teaching material. This article presents different ways to exploit news reports in the classroom and focuses on raising the level of involvement and participation that the students have in the lesson. |
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Extensive reading: why it is good for our students… and for us.In this, the first of two articles for TeachingEnglish, Alan Maley considers the benefits extensive reading can bring to English language learners and teachers. |
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Producing your own grammar activitiesThere are many ways of revising and consolidating grammar, but I've found it's often useful to give students short passages containing grammar mistakes which are characteristic of the student's level, nationality, and what the teacher may have identified as areas of particular strength or weakness. |
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How useful are comprehension questions?You may well ask me “How useful is the question in this title?” After all to check what a student has understood after listening to or reading an L2 text seems plain common sense. If it were not felt to be a sensible procedure why would course book writers supply comprehension questions in large quantities? |
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Designing a WWW reading taskThe world wide web offers a myriad of opportunities for authentic English reading texts. Any good teacher can turn a reasonable authentic reading text into a useful and fulfilling activity, |
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Extensive readingIn general, students learning to read in English do not like reading and they rarely read. This is partly due to the way reading is approached in the language class. |
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Extensive reading: why it is good for our students… and for us.In this, the first of two articles for TeachingEnglish, Alan Maley considers the benefits extensive reading can bring to English language learners and teachers. |
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Form focus and recycling: getting grammarIn my last article, Reading for Information: Motivating learners to read efficiently, I referred to four stages in a task-based reading lesson |
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How useful are comprehension questions?You may well ask me “How useful is the question in this title?” After all to check what a student has understood after listening to or reading an L2 text seems plain common sense. If it were not felt to be a sensible procedure why would course book writers supply comprehension questions in large quantities? |
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Interacting with texts - Directed activities related to texts (DARTs)Good readers use what they know about language and the world to interact with what they are reading. This helps them create meaning from the words on the page. |
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Form focus and recycling: getting grammarIn my last article, Reading for Information: Motivating learners to read efficiently, I referred to four stages in a task-based reading lesson |
Reading and elementary learnersOne of the key issues I've noticed in getting my elementary learners to read is that of self-confidence. When confronted with a reading text, particularly one that's authentic, or semi-authentic, it's easy for them to think; |
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Teaching the tale: language and memoryA feature that is common both to language teaching and to traditional folk and fairy tales is the repetition of phrases or ‘language chunks’. |
Text in language classrooms: TALO, TAVI and TASPOne of the enormous benefits of the Internet has been the accessibility of loads and loads of English texts for teachers to use with their learners. |
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