Implementing of Reading Strategies in the Academic Process as the Productive Way of Foreign Text Understanding

Svetlana I Pozdeeva,Liubov A Sobinova

doi:10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n6s4p390

Svetlana I Pozdeeva, Liubov A Sobinova

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https://doi.org/10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n6s4p390

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Abstract

The authors of the paper put the relevant issue associated with a perception of foreign texts presented in English for pupils and students at schools and universities. It is approved that children’s and youth’s deformation of common cultural reading skills demands new working ways with foreign material. Based on “learning strategy” and “reading strategy” definitions the authors suggest the algorithm to be studied and applied in the academic process at schools and universities as the main way to understand authentic texts. Types and subtypes of reading strategies are worked out according to student reading activity at schools and universities in Russia. Moreover, the authors illustrate vivid handouts that can be used by teachers of foreign languages. The conclusion about the development of reading literacy and competence shaping is made at the end of the paper. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n6s4p390

Highlights

At the present time the method of teaching to read is an issue about the choice of effective strategies for working with an informative text
According to her, possessing reading strategies in foreign language implies: 1) Goal setting taking into account the features of an educational situation and personal objectives; 2) The same way of working with changing materials; 3) A reader owns a set of learning actions that are implemented to understand the text and use its information; 4) If a learner possesses a certain reading strategy, he can teach it another incompetent reader
Reading algorithms allow ordering the work process with an informative text depending on a goal a reader pursues

Summary

Background

At the present time the method of teaching to read is an issue about the choice of effective strategies for working with an informative text. The problem of an effective reading strategy choice is relevant for reading both in native (Russian) and foreign (English) languages. The problem of reading literacy and reading competence of pupil and student works with informative texts nowadays is extremely sharp In this case, the following difficulties, connecting to the reader’s self-activity with regard to native (Russian) and foreign (English) languages appear. Students have a gap in possessing different kinds of reading strategies (revision, skim, selective and detailed reading) and algorithms They are not able to pick out the basic information from a text, to fix it, to interpret it, to formulate their own attitude about the presented material. Scientists (linguists, psychologists, methodologists) and teachers are currently looking for efficient strategies of the independent reading activity organization

Literature Overview

Reading Types Classification

Reading Strategy Algorithms

Conclusion

Text assessment: New information