Reading Efficiently by Reading strategies

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Reading Efficiently by Reading strategies

• Shu-Ping (Anne) Cheng
• Professor Katherine McCarthy
• EFL-501 Language Learning and Acquisition

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Introduction

• Information booming age
• Key reading strategies
• The definition
• Three reading strategies
• The importance and advantages
• Application

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Background

• 1970s strategies,styles,personality
• 1982 14 features of good language learner (Rubin
  Thompaon)
• 1983-1999 language strategies (Michael
  OmalleyAnna Chamot)
• a. metacognitive
• b. cognitive
• c. socioaffective
• 1990s Classroom-based training
  (Strategies-Based Instruction)
• Self-helping training
• 1987Jones .et al.study the effective learners
  character
• 1990 Chamoteffective learners used more
  strategies than less effective learners.
• Until 1991 47 reading strategies issued

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What is reading strategy

• What is reading
• Alphabet, vocabulary-?sentence, paragraph? can
  understand interpret
• What is strategy
• Greek term Strategiageneralship or the art of
  the war
• Ways that can be applied to some situations for
  achieve goals
• What is reading strategy
• Operations used by learners to facilitate their
  acquisition, storage and use of information in
  reading

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Three reading strategies

• Picture clues
• using picture to guess the word
• Provide the clues about what is going to present
  in the book
• Think-aloud
• Using brief words to repeat the content of the
  text by speaking or note taking
• Advantage force readers to concentrate
• inaudible
  thoughts--?audible thoughts
• Slow down the reading
  pace ?reader have time to absorb the content
• Peer-assistant learning strategies (PALS)
• Retelling to partner
• Paragraph shrinking
• Result prediction

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6 different teaching methods vs. new information
retention
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The importance and advantages

• Importance
• Using reading strategies
• ?
• Good comprehension
• ?
• Increase Reading ability ? Reading
  efficiency
• Advantages
• Overtake the reading problems
• Develop good reading behavior

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Application

• Pre-reading
• provide a scene of what will be read later
• Brainstorm
• Warm-up and introduction
• During-reading
• Using questioning and predicting to develop
  comprehension
• Personal connection to the texts
• Post-reading
• Receive the information and transfer it into
  knowledge
• Transfer through categorize, rearrange, memorize
  and interpret to others

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Conclusion

• Each one need to find out his/her own strategies
• Help students to overcome their reading problems
  by using reading strategies
• My goal in teaching reading
• Helping my students be independent and active
  readers.

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Thank you