Scribd
Upload
350 views1 page

Reading Sub Skills

The document lists and describes 14 key reading subskills: 1) Basic reference skills like using tables of contents and indexes 2) Determining meanings of unfamiliar words through context 3) Understanding grammatical relationships at the sentence level 4) Understanding relationships between parts of a text through cohesive devices 5) Understanding relationships between parts through discourse markers 6) Understanding sentence communicative functions with or without markers 7) Understanding conceptual meaning and relationships like comparison and cause/effect 8) Understanding explicitly stated ideas and information 9) Understanding unstated ideas and information 10) Distinguishing main ideas from details 11) Transferring knowledge between contexts 12) Skimming for general understanding 13) Sc

Uploaded by

mangum1
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
350 views1 page

Reading Sub Skills

The document lists and describes 14 key reading subskills: 1) Basic reference skills like using tables of contents and indexes 2) Determining meanings of unfamiliar words through context 3) Understanding grammatical relationships at the sentence level 4) Understanding relationships between parts of a text through cohesive devices 5) Understanding relationships between parts through discourse markers 6) Understanding sentence communicative functions with or without markers 7) Understanding conceptual meaning and relationships like comparison and cause/effect 8) Understanding explicitly stated ideas and information 9) Understanding unstated ideas and information 10) Distinguishing main ideas from details 11) Transferring knowledge between contexts 12) Skimming for general understanding 13) Sc

Uploaded by

mangum1
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 1

miguel bengoa elt

English Language Teaching Links Babel test Archives What MA? Blog Learners E Home

To search, type and hit enter

Reading sub skills

By MIGUELBENGOA | FEBRUARY 25TH, 2008

1. Basic reference and information-finding skills [e.g. title, using contents page, index. footnotes, bibliography, chapter headings and sub-headings, chapter summaries] 2. Deducing meaning and use of unfamiliar lexical items through understanding word formation and contextual clues 3. Understanding grammatical [syntactic and morphological] relationships at the sentence level 4. Understanding relationships between parts of text through cohesive devices [especially grammatical cohesion such as noun-pronoun reference] 5. Understanding relationships between parts of text through discourse markers [especially for introduction, development, transition and conclusion of ideas] 6. Understanding communicative functions of sentences with and without specific markers [e.g. definition and exemplification] 7. Understanding conceptual meaning in text [e.g. comparison, cause & effect, audience & purpose] 8. Understanding explicitly stated ideas and information in text 9. Understanding ideas and information in a text which are not explicitly stated 10. Separating essential and non-essential content in text: distinguishing main idea from supporting detail [e.g. fact & opinion, statement & example, proposition & argument] 11. Transferring information or knowledge from one context to another [e.g. from science to engineering] 12. Skimming text [surveying to obtain gist] 13. Scanning text [reading for specific detail] 14. Note-making from text Extracting salient points for summary of specific idea or topic in text Selectively extracting relevant and related points from text for summary Reducing text by rejection of redundant or irrelevant items or information
This entry was posted in curriculum, skills, syllabus. Bookmark the permalink. Post a comment or leave a

Categories
Activities (13) bibliography (5) classroom dynamics (4) curriculum (11) dictation (4) EAP (2) Education & training (1) internet (2) Language (5) Learner Area (3) Level C (1) Level D (3) Level E (1) levels (1) listening (5) methodology (10) phonetics (2) Self Access Learning (2) skills (19) speaking (11) syllabus (9) testing (11) texts (2) Uncategorized (22) word lists (4) young learners (1)

You might also like