Review

Lesson 1: What is Reading?

Introduction
Lesson 1
- Definitions of Reading
- A Holistic Approach to Reading
- Readability and the Holistic Approach
- Review and Reflect
Lesson 2
Lesson 3
Lesson 4
Conclusion
Portfolio
Resources

1. Reader recognition in pre-reading of a FL asks students to indicate what they comprehend. Foreign language instructors have options for confirming students' beginning comprehension of a passage when they demonstrate

the ability to translate a word or phrase in a text passage.

the ability to provide foreign language synonyms for a word or phrase in a text passage.

the ability to categorize a word or phrase in a text passage with regard to designated times, places, persons, or events.

all of the above

2. For purposes of selecting FL texts for readability factors depend about 50% on language factors and the other 50% results from

how well pre-reading goes.

how readers apply variables such as knowledge background, strategies, and genre.

how novel the text is.

how extensive the students' command of FL vocabulary is.

3. Approaching FL reading in the cognitive stages means

repeating the same tasks until they are learned.

separating grammar from vocabulary learning.

choosing the right genre.

focusing on one mode of thinking at a time.

4. Bloom's taxonomy of human cognitive processes places different types of thinking processes in a hierarchy of low to high

because only people of higher intelligence can do the higher levels.

because some cognitive processes are more valuable than others.

because he had to list them in some way.

because that hierarchy reflects a sequence of less to more difficult/complex processes.

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Reflect

Pick a short English or L1 text you have not read already that is about concerns a topic your know a lot about. In other words, the context and content of the text are familiar to you. Brainstorm with a partner or by yourself about your horizon of expectation as you start to read this familiar L1 text:

What topics and subtopics do you anticipate?
What is the text's genre and publication venue, that is, the media type and audiences it serves?
Based on the above, what points of view do you expect to encounter?

If you feel ambitious, undertake this same task with an unfamiliar text, genre, and publication source.

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