1 / 12

Reading: things to do

Reading: things to do. Principles. “Researching” and “teaching” are more effective for deep learning than “studying”. Find your own needs and capabilities. Principles 2. Doing easy reading builds basic reading skills. For specialized texts, an analytical approach works best.

leyna
Download Presentation

Reading: things to do

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Reading: things to do

  2. Principles • “Researching” and “teaching” are more effective for deep learning than “studying”. • Find your own needs and capabilities.

  3. Principles 2 • Doing easy reading builds basic reading skills. • For specialized texts, an analytical approach works best.

  4. Working with words • You should learn the Longman Defining Vocabulary as quickly as possible, because it constitutes about 60-80% of a text.

  5. Working with words • You should work on the Academic Word List using the AWL Highlighter and AWL Gapmaker, because the AWL combined with the LDV gives about 90% coverage of most texts.

  6. Working with words 2 • If you don’t have much time, think about your priorities. • If you know most of the LDV words, or if they don’t seem so important, you may want to concentrate on the AWL.

  7. Working with words 3: Web Vocab Profiler • After using the AWL Highlighter and Gapmaker a few times, you should try the Web Vocab Profiler.

  8. Web Vocab Profiler 2 • http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/r21270/textools/web_vp.html • This program color-codes the words in a text in 4 categories: top 1000, 2nd 1000, AWL, other

  9. Grammar & Phrases: Concordancing • A concordancer is a good tool for investigating the use of words within phrases and sentences.

  10. Concordancing 2 • In other words, you can study grammar and vocabulary together. • You can focus on aspects of a text that seem important to you.

More Related