The Reading Process ELCOMBLUS COM READING WRITING SKILLS

The Reading Process ELCOMBLUS. COM READING & WRITING SKILLS AUGUST 11, 2020

READING & WRITING SKILLS DISCUSSION OUTLINE Lecture Coverage • Definition of reading. • Nature and process of reading. • Schema theory. • Techniques in effective reading. • Selecting and organizing the information from the text read.

READING & WRITING SKILLS DEFINITION OF READING What is reading?

DEFINITION OF READING How do we make sense of the text we read? READING & WRITING SKILLS What is reading?

DEFINITION OF READING & WRITING SKILLS Reading is a cognitive process of decoding symbols to derive meaning from a text. It is always an interaction between the text and the reader.

DEFINITION OF READING & WRITING SKILLS Reading is the process of translating letters and other symbols into meaningful information for understanding and use in everyday life.

THE READING PROCESS What skills do we need to employ for better comprehension?

READING & WRITING SKILLS Identifying the author’s purpose, grasping the main ideas of the text, locating important details, using context clues to understand unfamiliar words, answering specific questions, analyzing the text’s points, and critiquing the text. SKILLS NEEDED FOR READING

SCHEMA An active organization of past reactions or experiences (Barlett, 1932). THE NATURE OF READING

READING & WRITING SKILLS PRIOR KNOWLEDGE THE SCHEMA THEORY

SCHEMA Written text does not carry meaning by itself; rather, it only provides directions for readers as to how they should retrieve or construct meaning from their own previously acquired knowledge (An, 2013).

SCHEMA Comprehending a text is an interactive process between the reader’s background knowledge and the text.

CONTENT SCHEMA Knowledge on the content Types of Schema FORMAL SCHEMA Knowledge on form, structure. LINGUISTIC SCHEMA THEORY Knowledge on language.

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Reading & Writing Skills THE SCHEMA THEORY Content schema refers to “background knowledge of the content area of the text” (Carrell and Eisterhold, 1983). • What usually happens within a certain topic? • How these happenings relate to each other to form a coherent whole? CONTENT SCHEMA

Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds and shall find me unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul. WHAT DO YOU KNOW THE SCHEMA THEORY

Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds and shall find me unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul. WHAT DO YOU KNOW THE SCHEMA THEORY

Reading & Writing Skills THE SCHEMA THEORY A formal schema refers to “background knowledge of the formal, rhetorical organizational structures of different types of texts” (Carrell and Eisterhold, 1983) FORMAL SCHEMA

’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. “Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!” WHAT DO YOU KNOW THE SCHEMA THEORY

Reading & Writing Skills THE SCHEMA THEORY Linguistic schema refers to the knowledge about vocabulary and grammar. Good readers are both decoders and interpreters of texts (Eskey, 1988) LINGUISTIC SCHEMA

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