Teaching the technique of reading

The selection and requirements to texts for different modes of reading.

Modes of reading.

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TEACHING READING

1. The role and place of reading in teaching a foreign language at school.

2. The psychological mechanisms of reading. Interrelation of rea­ding with other language activities.

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The psychological mechanisms of reading are:

Ø the starting mechanisms (perception of graphic images);

Ø the identification of graphic information;

Ø anticipation;

Ø inner articulation;

Ø aural control (reading aloud).

A mode of reading depends on the criteria it is based on:

Criteria	Modes of Reading
According to analyzers at work	analytical and synthetic
Conditions of reading	independent and guided
Extension of reading	extensive and intensive
Participation of voice	reading aloud and to oneself
Methodological aim	study and communicative
Place of reading	class reading and home reading
Degree of obligation	obligatory and supplementary

Synthetical reading is a mode of reading which centers a reader's attention on the whole speed produce (work, written piece) not on any particular information. Tempo of synthetical reading in English is 180 syll/ min.

Synthetic reading is aimed at reading without a dictionary and getting as much information as possible.

It presupposes:

Ø generalizing the facts;

Ø extracting key points and ideas;

Ø drawing a conclusion;

Ø interpreting the texts and their meaning.

Synthetic reading requires the skills of:

a) extracting the notional landmarks from the text (key words, facts);

b) relating separate parts of a text with each other; determining the succession and interrelation of events;

c) generalizing the acquired facts;

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