2. Developing Skills in Academic Reading & 3. Understanding Academic Text

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Said that Developing Skills in Academic Reading is “An interactive and socio-cognitive process involving a text, a reader, and a social context within which the activity takes place”.

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Bernhardt (1991)

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Said “there is a transaction between the reader and the text which involves the reader’s act on interpreting the text. The interpretation is influenced by the reader’s experiences, language and cultural background as well as the reader’s purpose for reading”

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Hudelson 1994

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Known as the Father of Reading

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William Gray (1950)

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Strategies In Academic Reading

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1. Efficient Reading
2. Critical reading
3. Drawing Conclusions

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Academic texts generally conform to a set structure, are written in a formal, academic way, and contain specific language from your discipline area.

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Efficient Reading

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The 4s-System for Efficient Academic Reading

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Skimming
Scanning
Selecting
Studying

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used when the reader needs to know the general idea or ideas of a particular passage

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Skimming

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Used when the reader goes over a selection rapidly using the writer’s tools until reaching the passage which contains the information sought.

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Scanning

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Using both scanning and skimming to decide what to read more closely

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Selecting

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Is also reading in detail and paying close attention to the main points the reader wants to learn.

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Studying

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The reader reads carefully and makes a variety of comments about the text being read.

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Critical reading

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It is a kind of reading that involves the reader to respond to a text, whether in writing, speaking, answering a test, or presenting a report.

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Critical reading

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It involves the use of visual clues, titles and illustrations to understand something indirectly stated in the text.

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Drawing Conclusions

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Ways in drawing out valid conclusions

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Deductive process or top-down approach & Inductive process or bottom-up approach

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presents information from general to specific.

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Deductive process or top-down approach

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It involves prediction and inference on the basis of facts, propositions and expectations.

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Deductive process or top-down approach

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It starts from reading a text, then uses the background information to understand a text.

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Deductive process or top-down approach

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begins from accurate information or observation, then perceives a particular pattern, then formulates tentative hypotheses and ends up with general conclusion.

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Inductive process or bottom-up approach

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presents information from specific to general

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Inductive process or bottom-up approach

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To describe actions or situations that do not change frequently

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The Simple Present Tense

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To describes habits or routines

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The Simple Present Tense

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To express opinions or to make general statements or facts.

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The Simple Present Tense

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Can also be used to refer to the future.

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The Simple Present Tense

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Add -s or -es to the base form of the verb in singular number but no -s or -es for plural forms

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The Simple Present Tense

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Describes actions or situations in progress at the moment of speaking

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The Present Continuous Tense

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The Present Continuous Tense is also called?

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present progressive tense

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Is formed by using the verb BE in present tense and the main verb with -ing.

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The Present Continuous Tense

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is formed by using: Is (singular), Are (plural), Am (subject +Verb - ing)

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The Present Continuous Tense

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The reason that the author chose to write the passage

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Author’s Purpose

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3 types of the author’s purpose

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To Persuade
To Inform
To Entertain

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To compel readers to take action. Convince them of an idea through argument. Or to reaffirm their existing beliefs

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To Persuade

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To enlighten the reader or provide the reader with information about a topic

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To Inform

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defined as the action or performance made to amuse or give enjoyment to others.

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Entertainment

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It is a process that can allow reflection of the self or what the author sees.

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To Entertain

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Is how an author feels about the topic they are writing about.

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Author’s Perspective

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Who defined Structural Analysis as word recognition skills in which knowledge of the meaningful parts of words aids in the identification of an unknown written word ?

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Cooper, I. David (2003)

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come from another language or language structure and can’t stand alone in English as words.

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Roots Words

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are English words and can stand alone as words.

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Base Words

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are syllables added to the base form or root word that change the meaning of a newly formed word.

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Affixes

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are attached to the beginning of base words or root words to change their meaning

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Prefixes

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are attached to the end of base words or root words that can change the word’s part of speech or its meaning.

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Suffixes

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(type of suffix) the formation of grammatical variants of the same word

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Inflectional endings

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(type of suffix) the process of forming a new word on the basis of an existing word.

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Derivational suffix

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a combination of two words.

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Compound Words