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The Process of Reading in A Foreign Language

The document outlines the process of reading in a foreign language. It discusses reading as an active process to comprehend meaning rather than just repeat concepts. Comprehension relies on prior knowledge and constructing meaning from familiar vocabulary. Successful reading involves three stages - anticipation, verification of ideas, and internalization of concepts into one's own knowledge. The anticipation stage involves scanning the text and developing strategies. The verification stage involves checking hypotheses and evaluating coherence. The internalization stage involves reconstructing ideas and synthesizing concepts. Common reading errors and principles of effective foreign language reading are also presented.

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The Process of Reading in A Foreign Language

The document outlines the process of reading in a foreign language. It discusses reading as an active process to comprehend meaning rather than just repeat concepts. Comprehension relies on prior knowledge and constructing meaning from familiar vocabulary. Successful reading involves three stages - anticipation, verification of ideas, and internalization of concepts into one's own knowledge. The anticipation stage involves scanning the text and developing strategies. The verification stage involves checking hypotheses and evaluating coherence. The internalization stage involves reconstructing ideas and synthesizing concepts. Common reading errors and principles of effective foreign language reading are also presented.

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The process of Reading in

a foreign language
An active process in search of meaning
To bear in mind…

• Reading does not consist in repeating concepts but in comprehending them.


• Comprehension is very much based on previous knowledge.
• Comprehension leads to the construction of meaning based on known or
predictable lexis.
• The bases of a successful Reading and comprehension are:
a. self-confidence
b. good reading strategies
c. an active reading methodology
3 stages of successful reading

1. Anticipation or pre-Reading stage

2. Verification or propositional Reading stage

3. Internalisation or post-Reading stage


1. Anticipation or pre-reading

• Scanning: central idea of the text; framework and autor’s stance.


• Decision making: what type of text: narrative? expository? descriptive?
argumentative? instructional?
• Paratextual data: titles, subtitles, epigraph, abstract, key words, autor’s resume,
bibliography, notes, date of publication, prologue, index, glossary, apendix, etc.
• General reading strategies:
a. identifying words (lexical), numbers or figures, italics, capital letters, in inverted
commas, in bold
b. identifying topic sentences and cohesive devices
2. Propositional Reading

• Verification of hypotheses formulated in the anticipation stage.


• Evaluation of the text: coherence.
• Decision making: What to do when you meet an unknown word: guess, skip
it, look it up?
• Activities which organise the information of the text: conceptualisation by
paragraphs, chart completion, paraphrasing, reflective questions, definition
of concepts, hierarchy of concepts, etc.
• Macrostructure: global structure representing the theme or main topic of the text.
• Suprastructure: determine the global order of the parts of the text which organise the process of
reading, comprehension and reproduction of discourse.

Examples of suprastructure:

Narrative text: sequence of events.


Descriptive text: characteristics of described object and functions of each part.
Expository text: formulation of problem and solution; the effect of a cause; prediction,
discussion and conclusion of a hypothesis.
Inductive text: description of one or more cases to later formulate a general rule.
Deductive text: formulation of rule to study each particular case.
Argumentative text: formulated thesis and its justifications.
3. Internalisation and reformulation stage

• Reconstruction of text in mind: new concepts articulate with previous ones (new
conceptual network).

• Synthesis and hierarchical organisation of main concepts in one sentence (including


autor’s stance, paradigm which presents and support a new proposal).

• Reading closure: self-representation of text.


Common errors

• Pseudonegatives and negatives


• Reading of nominal phrases/constructions
• Recognition of modal verbs
• Complex structures
• Cultural issues
Basic principles of reading in a foreign
language
• Acknowledge previous knowledge
• Abstraction of meaning
• Get to know the organisation of academic texts (suprastructure)
• Apply basic reading strategies
• Acknowledge the “anticipation” stage as step one
• Develop self-confidence
• Improve selection skills
• Learn productive vocabulary
• Look up indispensable vocabulary

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