General Introduction: The teaching of reading at secondary schools seems to be inadequate and not satisfying (Duffy and Rohehler 1981-82 Durkin 1978-1979). Many students have low motivation in learning English especially in the reading class. Many students say that English is not an interesting subject. For that reason‚ they take the English class because it is a compulsory subject for them to pass the three semesters. As a result the students turn to be less active readers and at the
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Available online at www.sciencedirect.com System 37 (2009) 652–663 www.elsevier.com/locate/system Gains to L2 listeners from reading while listening vs. listening only in comprehending short stories Anna C.-S. Chang Applied English Department‚ Hsing-Wu College‚ Taipei‚ Taiwan Received 13 August 2008; received in revised form 30 November 2008; accepted 6 May 2009 Abstract This study builds on the concept that aural–written verification helps L2 learners develop auditory discrimination
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Reading Strategies Worksheet Identify two reading goals‚ one short-term and one long-term. • Long-term reading goal: I would like to make better use of my time spent reading. • Short-term reading goal: I plan to put into action several of the Active Reading strategy. • How do you currently approach the weekly readings in the course? I currently spend the first few days of each week reading all of the related materials for class. I may also read them again at random times during the
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In “A Fable for Tomorrow‚” Rachel Carson‚ a professional writer‚ scientist and ecologist‚ illustrates in her essay a small town in the heart of America being breathtaking and a site of beauty before the act of man desolate and ruin the environment with pesticides. The town is vibrant‚ full of life and color with fields of farms‚ animals and wild life. The author describes the town by seasons as having colors of flames abroad the oak and maple trees in autumn. In fall‚ foxes and deer travel across
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Oh‚ to be in England THEODORE DALRYMPLE The Dystopian Imagination Autumn 2001 Why did the twentieth century produce so many—and such vivid—dystopias‚ works of fiction depicting not an ideal future but a future as terrible as could be imagined? After all‚ never had material progress been greater; never should man have felt himself freer of the anxieties that‚ with good reason‚ had beset him in the past. Famine had all but disappeared‚ except in civil wars or where regimes deliberately engineered
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Reading is an essential skill in modern society. Not only does it enable people to access information‚ it provides people with a great deal of pleasure. It is vital that primary schools equip children with effective strategies for reading as well as foster a desire to read that will stay with them throughout their lives. This analysis of reading will firstly give a brief outline of the context of my school placement. It will analyse two pupils as readers and their strategies. The school’s policy
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Chapter 4 Reading Comprehension: Strategies That Work Young children are developing as readers when they are able to understand‚ interpret and critique what they read. Research has consistently shown that the goal of developing comprehension should go hand-in-hand with the goal of developing solid sound-letter knowledge‚ even for our youngest learners. Duke and Pearson 2001‚ 1 Find Out More About Reading Comprehension Allington‚ Richard L. “The Schools We Have‚ the Schools We
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Effective Listening Skills Katy Norris BSHS/385 July 20‚ 2015 Audra Stinson Effective Listening Skills “Active Listening Skills” was the first article I found interesting. The article delivered a lot of very useful information that will help with assisting clients and develop a strong relationship. It is important that the client knows the person listening is paying attention and cares about what is being said. The article shows how important listening is and how to get the client to
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television viewing impacts on students’ academic performance have been made‚ but there are still questions related to this that are needed to be answered. To bring more clarifications in this aspect‚ Marco Ennemoser and Wolfgang Scheider conducted the study entitled “Relations of Television Viewing and Reading: Findings From a 4-Year Longitudinal Study”. As stated in the article‚ the study aims to determine the long-term effects of television viewing on the development of children’s reading competencies
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periods because I found them most interesting and they are both very different from the other one. The expected reading development in early childhood children and early adolescent children is greatly different. Early childhood children have a very short attention span at the beginning on this stage so it is very hard for them to sit still for long enough to understand the concept of reading. Young children usually enjoy being read to but they will very rarely sit with their caregiver for long enough
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