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10.6.4. Teaching General Reading

General reading is a sort of cognitive reading. It can be compared with reading fiction when it is not the object of our specific personal study, i.e. when we read it only for pleasure and do not strive to get some specific information on this or that problem. It is reading just for relaxation. The text is processed in mind in an involuntary way, a series of complicated images, which are connected with the contents of the book, story or article arising in readers' minds. These mental visual images contain the most important ideas and concepts of the author and coincide with personal interests and requirements of the readers.

Understanding of 70% of predicative phrases of a text is enough for general understanding of a text, because the other 30% do not contain its key problems and ideas. The tempo of general reading is 180 words per minute. [49].

The tasks for teaching general reading can be as follows:

/. Reading the text for the second time, make up a chronological or logical sequence of the facts and events you've read in the text. Your reading time is 3—4 minutes.

2. Reading the text for the second time, say whether you have found an idea which is new for you. Your reading time is 3 — 4 minutes

Methodological conditions of teaching general reading:

  1. rapid tempo of reading, however slower than that in skimming reading,

  2. silent reading to oneself,

  3. one-time reading,

  4. reading with no translation,

  5. limitation of the time of reading

  6. reading in class.

10.6.5. Teaching Close Reading

The goal of close reading is achieving complete and exact understanding of all the information of the text. Close reading is a kind of thoughtful and rational reading not limited in time which is always carried out by students as a home task and not in class. It is a goal-oriented analysis of the contents of a text supported with its language and logical ties of the text [2, 270].

Grammatical analysis of the text is only undertaken in case of difficulties with understanding.

Close reading is effected with the help of consciously-raised finding meaningful correlations between the information of the textual language in­formation and that contained in the pictures, figures, graphs, tables and in­scriptions to them.

Normal reading activities undertaken even by fluent readers during close reading are regressive movements of the eyes, repeated readings of some parts of a text, sometimes their sounding reproduction and even oral retelling of the main ideas of the text to oneself.

The tempo of close reading is rather slow, it is 50-60 words per minute [50].

Methodological conditions of teaching close reading:

  1. slow tempo of reading,

  2. no time limitations,

  3. silent reading to oneself,

  4. a necessary number of repeated reading of a text,

  5. translation into the native language is possible,

  6. using a dictionary is possible

10.6.6. Teaching Searching Reading

The goal of searching reading is rapid finding out specific information in the text (2]. Readers carry out searching reading with the help of reading activi­ties specific both for skimming reading and close reading. Tasks in searching reading are carried out in class.

The object of searching reading is processing of the whole text in a certain sequence of actions presupposed by the teacher. Readers' attention is con­trolled on the one hand by their complete and exact understanding of the text and, on the other hand, by asking them to find pieces of specific information in it. To carry out the last task they resort to close reading.

Carrying out tasks in searching reading readers have to shift from one type of reading to another. Fluent readers do it with facility. This ability is one of the main natural peculiarities of reading as a language skill.

Tasks suggested to students to actualize searching reading are as follows: /. Find in the text references to fig. 1 and fig. 2. and retell what they read about.

You are given a minute. 2. Find the part or parts of the text in which there are identifications of the place

of the actions in the text. Methodological conditions of teaching searching reading:

  1. rapid tempo of reading,

  2. reading in class,

  3. preliminary skimming, general and close reading of the text,

  4. silent reading to oneself,

  5. reading lengthy texts,

  6. time restrictions.

How to choose the type of reading activity for a lesson ? It depends upon the stage of teaching.

At the starting stage and partly at the beginning stage learners read words, word groups and combinations of words. At the beginning stage reading of mini-texts is added. To avoid reading which would be disconnected with un­derstanding teaching should be organized so that easy-going translating of sound-motor images of a text into its mental visual images occurred. In other words, at these stages it is obligatory to support teaching reading with using pictures:

Read the word (a group of words, etc.) aloud and choose a corresponding picture(s).

a tower clock, a clock tower, a port city, a city port, a glass door, a door glass. Sometimes in cases when only translation can be used as a means of checking understanding it may be used..

At the second half of the beginning period, when the amount of vocabulary and grammatical items allows learners to read more lengthy texts skimming reading is applied. Sometimes general reading is used. The tasks of this stage may be as follows: Read the text and say whether it coincides to the pictures. Read a description of a class-room and say in what it differsfют our class-room. At the pre-intermediate stage close reading is applied. At the intermediate and advanced stages close reading and searching read­ing are used.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF PART 10

Ground your choices on the paragraphs of the text

From each of the multiple choices below choose two correct answers.