Components of Reading Abilities.ppt

Components of Reading Abilities 张Andy OUTLINE What do you rely on to achieve comprehension? What stand in the way of comprehension? What are components of reading abilities? Two Excerpts 冻合玉楼寒起粟，光摇银海眩生花。 He was terribly, tragically sad. His family, friends and minister gathered around his bed. They were all deeply sad too. Only his therapist and his accountant remained happy. (P65) Difficulties Fish fish fish. Forbidden fruit is sweet. The mirror told me a story. They can fish here. Apart from complementary distribution, a phoneme may sometimes have free variants. He turned on the light. He helped Carla to her feet and took hold of the ghost. (P71) Components Word Recognition Syntactic Parsing Semantic Construction Text Model Situation Model Background Knowledge 1. Word Recognition The most fundamental requirement for fluent reading comprehension is and word recognition. 2. Syntactic Parsing 3. Semantic Construction A third basic process that starts up automatically as we begin any reading task is the process of combining word meanings and structural information into basic clause-level meaning units. 4. Text Model The text model of comprehension is a set of main ideas that the reader develops . It amounts to an internal summary of main ideas. 5. Situation Model Almost immediately the reader will begin to interpret the information from the text in terms of his or her own goals, feelings and background expectations. This explains the existence of different interpretations of a single text. 5. Situation Model Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, 6. Background Knowledge As the reader transforms infor