EAPROF L1

• Components of Reading


  • Phonemic Awareness
  • Phonology
  • Vocabulary Development
  • Fluency
  • Comprehension
• Phonemic Awareness


  Phonemes are the combination of forming syllables and words
• Phonology


  How letters correspond to sounds
• Vocabulary Development


  The knowledge of stored info about the meanings and pronunciation of words
• Fluency


  The ability to read words accurately and quickly
• Comprehension


  To understand
• Approaches


  • Bottom-up
  • Top-down
  • Interactive
• Bottom-up


  Decoding process
• Top-down


  Focuses on the reader
• Interactive


  Focuses on the interaction
• Stages of Reading


  • Pre-reading
  • While-reading
  • Post reading
• Pre-reading


  Aims to induce reader's motivation
• While-reading


  Reading text till fully understood
• Post reading


  Checking your understanding of text
• Schema Theory
• Background Knowledge


  Reader brings previously acquired information organized into interrelated patterns, or schemata, to the reading process
• Types of Schema


  • Formal schemata
  • Content schemata
  • Linguistic schemata
• Formal schemata


  Rhetorical structures and conventions like organizational patterns
• Content schemata


  Subject of the text + culture-bound ideas
• Linguistic schemata


  Vocabulary and grammar rules