英语教学法复习提纲Unit10.doc

Unit 10 Teaching Reading 85. This section (task 1)attempts to clarify and illustrate some aspects of the nature of reading. If the students fail to understand the nature of reading, they will adopt inappropriate and ineffective reading strategies; If teachers fail to do so, they will be unable to help the students to develop effective reading skills. 86 Two types of reading practice in classrooms: Reading aloud Silent reading ? Reading aloud Silent reading Manner Utterance of every word Silent Speed Usually slow Usually fast Purpose Usually to share information Usually to get information Skills involved Pronunciation and intonation Skimming, scanning, predicting Guessing unknown words Understanding details Understanding relations between sentences and between paragraphs Understanding references Understanding inferences Activity type Collective activity Individual activity Management in the Easy to manage as it can be Difficult to manage as teachers cannot see classroom observed and heard what is going on in the students minds ? 87. Effective readers do the following: ~ They have a clear purpose in reading; ~ They read silently; ~ They read phrase by phrase, rather than word by word; ~ They concentrate on the important bits, skim the rest, and skip the insignificant parts; ~ They use different speeds and strategies for different reading tasks; ~ They perceive the information in the target language rather than mentally translate; ~ They guess the meaning of new words from the context, or ignore them; ~ They have and use background information to help understand the text. 88. Definition of reading comprehension Reading comprehension means extracting摘出(要点)， the required information from the text as efficiently as possible. ? A characteristic: Reading is a silent and individual activity since the writers intention was that the