Reading Flashcards
What is reading?
To make sense of written language. We need to understand at word level, sentence level and whole-text level connecting the message with our knowledge of the world.
Coherence
The quality of being logical and consistent. The sense of connection between the text.
Cohesion
The action or fact of forming a united whole. In this particular case it has to be with the grammatical link between sentences.
Reading for specific information or scanning
You don’t read the whole text; we glance over the information until we find what we are looking for.
Reading for gist or skimming/reading for global understanding
Glancing through a text to get a general idea of what is it about.
Reading for detail.
It involves getting the meaning out of every word and out of the links or relationships between words and between sentences.
Intensive reading.
When you look up for all the grammar details in which are you interested.
Inferring
To find out what the writer’s opinion on a topic is or what his/her feeling is noticing what words, register, grammar or style has used.
Deducing meaning from context.
Reading the words around an unknown word or thinking about the situation the unknown word is used in to try to work out its meaning.
Predicting
It means to use clues before we begin reading, to guess what a text may be about.
Text structure
It involves understanding how certain types of text generally develop. Readers expect certain information to come in certain sequences.
Extensive reading
Reading for pleasure
Intensive reading.
It involves reading for language study.
Text types
The different kinds of written text like letters, articles, postcards, etc. All of them have different layouts, topics and language.
Factual text
They give facts and information
