Teaching Reading Skills in a Foreign Language

Contents

 

Part One Introductory

Chapter 1 What is reading?

Chapter 2 Text and discourse

Chapter 3 Approaching reading in the foreign language classroom

 

Part Two Reading skills and strategies

Introduction

Chapter 4 Efficient reading

Chapter 5 Word attack skills

Chapter 6 Reading for plain sense

Chapter 7 Understanding discourse

 

Part Three Planning and teaching

Introduction

Chapter 8 An extensive reading programme

Chapter 9 Planning reading lessons

Chapter 10 Selecting texts

Chapter 11 Questioning

Chapter 12 Other kinds of reading task

Chapter 13 The testing of reading

Chapter 14 The teacher as reader

 

Appendix A: Texts

Appendix B: Extracts from reading courses

Appendix C: Lesson plans

Appendix D: Useful addresses

 

Key to the activities

Select bibliography

Subject index