Teaching Reading in a Foreign Language
Just like in the case of listening, reading activities
and tasks are also more successful when carried out with Pre-During-Post
approach. Each particular stage in a reading lesson can use learning-centered
activities that will help students understand both, main ideas and specific
details.
Something I found interesting about
this reading is that teaching reading can be more effective under two
conditions. First, building reading skills will be more fruitful if students benefit from exploring texts that use different models.
Poetry, news, short stories, and authentic materials. And second, every student faces
texts with their different learning styles. This is an aspect that was
not deepened in the text, but I would like to learn more about.
The main constraint that I
have encountered when teaching reading in my context is that so many students
have such a low level of reading strategies even in their own language. It
really poses a challenge for many students when they face texts on certain length. And
the trouble is that students need to go over readings that are not level and
age appropriate for them just because they are in the texts they bought for their courses. So my
question is: how can I make students become interested in pedagogically-prepared
material that might not be appealing to them?
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