William Grabe's Reading in a Second Language: Moving from Theory to Practice has proven to be a great resource to help update the curriculum at CESL. It's helping to bust some myths about speed reading and to clarify the concepts behind reading strategies. Part of Chapter 10 and all of Chapter 11 go into depth about reading strategies that support comprehension and becoming a strategic reader. For those with access to the book, a quick look at tables 10.3, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, and 11.6 will help language teachers get the gist about reading strategies. I'd like to focus on table 11.1 (page 224), which lists the metacognitive processes for comprehension as it is most relevant for our upper-level students at CESL. These processes help students develop autonomy concerning the improvement of their own reading strategies that, when mastered, become reading skills. Set (or reset) reading goals Expect to build a coherent interpretation of a text and establish th...
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