reading in the 2l class

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1、Readinginthe2LClass发表日期：2006-1-515:17:38出处：作者：TedPowerReadingintheSecondLanguageClassReadingEnglishforAcademicPurposesTESL/TEFLtheoryfromthelearningandteachingexperiencesofTedPower TOPIC:10READINGOBJECTIVESforhigherintermediateoradvancedlearnerswhowishtostudyinplacesofhi

2、ghereducationintheUK.1.Topic/Purposeofwrittentext:Givenageneraltextofaveragedifficulty(relativetovocabularylevel&generalproficiencyoftheSs)andgiventimetoreadthetextataspeedappropriatetoitspurpose&type,Sswillbeabletogiveaplausibleaccountofwhyitwaswritten&whoitwaswrittenfo

3、r(globalfunction).Theywillbeabletoparaphrasethesubjectmatteringlobalterms(saywhatit'saboutinonesentence).2.Readingstyles-Developavarietyofreadingstylesappropriatetotheirpresentandshort-termfuturereadingopurposesandtheaccompanyingtexttypes.Giventextsofaveragedifficultyand

4、differentreadingpurposes(readingacademictexts,newspapers,timetablesetcforinformation,reviewingatextinalibraryorbookshop,readingforpleasure),Sswillselectreadingstylesappropriatetoeachparticulartexttypeandreadingpurpose.(I.e.theirstatedreadingpurpose).3.Learnnewlanguage-Gi

5、venagenerousratioofknown:unknownitemsinatextandtheexistenceofsemantic(juxtapositional)andsyntacticlinksbetweenthesetwocategoriesofitem,Sswilldeveloptheability(oftheefficientLTreader)toinferthemeaningofunknownwordsfromknowncontext.Theywillbeabletolearnnewlanguage,usingthe

6、linguisticcontextofthetexttochecktheirdeductionsbeforeresortingtoadictionary.4.Toreadwithconceptualawareness-Givenfairlygeneraltextscontainingfairlycommonconcepts(acommondegreeofabstraction),Sswilldeveloptheabilitytointerprettheauthor'sconceptsrelatingthemtotheirownexper

7、iencesoftheworld(conceptualcategories)withoutobviouslydistortingtheauthor'smessage.Accuracycanbecheckedbyefficientreadersusing"think-aloud"techniques(protocolanalysis)orthroughacertain%ofcorrectanswersinaMCcomprehensiontest.5.Understandingrelationswithinsentences.Givenag

8、eneraltextofsuitabledifficulty,Sswillbeabletoearmark(with80%accuracy)structuralunits/senseunitsatword,p