... your feelings with
someone else
Social strategies
1. Asking questions
a. Asking for clarification or
verification
b. Asking for correction
2. Cooperating with others
a. cooperating with peers
b. ... is an essential part of language, as Wilkins emphasized this with his
saying: "without grammar, very little can be conveyed, without vocabulary nothing can be
conveyed” (cited in Hoang ... Strategies
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answers of selecting from among existing answers”. This makes questionnaire data
particularly suited for quantitative, statistical analysis. With questionnaires, the...
... the books with available answers. They answer the question by reading the
answer in those books without understanding anything. For all these reasons, many students
are passive in reading lessons. ... whose answers are selected from
the sentences in the reading passage, the students can answer without much difficulty.
However, the answer which requires the choice from many ideas in the reading ... most difficulty when teaching reading
comprehension with the textbook?" are aimed at investigating difficulties the teachers are
coping with in teaching reading comprehension.
1....
... of Terminology 5
2.2.1. What is reading? 5
2.2.2. ReadingComprehension 6
2.3. The difficulties of the second language readingcomprehension process 7
2.3.1. Reading skill problem 7
2.3. 2. ... perspectives about difficult reading texts 21
3.7.5. Students’ activities in the reading lessons 22
3.7.5.1. Pre -reading activities 22
3.7.5.2. While -reading activities 24
3.7.5.3. Post -reading activities ... “scanning” for their reading comprehension. They only read again and
again in order to give the answers to the teachers’ questions or reading tasks.
The least difficult of all was the reading tasks....
... 2000)
Reading is asking questions of printed text. And readingwith
comprehension becomes a matter of getting your questions answered”. (Frank
Smith in Reading without nonsense, 1997)
Reading ... of reading has the
reading speed at between 800 to 1,000 wpm.
Light type of reading: Reading for leisure tends to be light reading. This
refers to reading at a pace which feels comfortable, reading ... habit of reading.
A large number of students (67 out of 75) had the right answer to the
question “What is effective reading comprehension? ” They knew that effective
reading comprehension is reading...
... If you’re taking a standardized test, you’ll
probably have to answerreadingcomprehension ques-
tions that ask about the facts in a reading passage.
These facts are not always easy to determine, ... passage carefully, and then
answer the questions that follow. Remember, careful
reading is active reading (see the Introduction), so
mark up the text as you go. Underline key words and
ideas; circle ... anyone with information to call 555-2323.
You’ll notice that the answers to the questions
have all been underlined, because these are the key
words and ideas in this passage. But here are the
answers...
... attempt to deal with definitions of reading in general and reading
comprehension in particular, types of reading and teaching reading comprehension.
1.1. Theoretical background of reading comprehension
1.1.1 ... read.
1.2.3 The three stages of a reading lesson.
A reading lesson can be divided into three stages which are pre- reading stage, while-
reading stage and post- reading stage. Each of these stages ... of reading of
reading comprehension has been paid in increasing attention to its different aspects. As time
goes by, many experts and methodologists have come to understand that reading
comprehension...
... read.
Hone your readingcomprehension skills by
answering these six essential questions after
reading articles in the daily newspaper:
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Who?
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What?
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When?
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Where?
■
Why?
■
How?
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Paper one: Reading comprehension
Section A: Choose the word or phrase from the list below which best completes ... noon temperature was 24
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London with a temperature of only 22
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The five cities with the highest temperature had a lot of sunshine throughout ... understood by using sign language
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Example: I / hope / you / my letter / before now
Answer: I was hoping you should have replied to my letter before now
51. I / be very delighted /...