UNIT 5 - READING

            Unit 5 is about Reading. It is a receptive skill and one of the four language skills, also it involves making sense of writing text. Therefore, we as future teachers should know that reading involves all about grammar and it helps learners to practice a lot of vocabulary. "Encourage students to respond to the content of a text (and explore their feelings about it), not just concentrate on its construction" Harmer Jeremy 1997, so I may say it is connected to a discourse. In addition, reading involves using different reading skills, for example: reading for gist or skimming, it is also called reading for global understanding. When talking about reading we have to take into account that a really important sub skill involves the relationship between words and between sentences, it is called reading  for detail. However, English learners should realize that there are two ways of reading, extensive and intensive reading. Extensive reading is to read for pleasure, for example; to read some magazines or newspaper at home or in the bus, etc. On the other hand, intensive reading is to read inside the classroom, for example; to read textbooks to do homework, learn vocabulary and to learn specific things. In addition, I have noticed most of students find reading as a complex process, from my personal opinion it is because it needs a lot of understanding of words and sentences to catch the main idea from a text. To sum up, I would apply all those aspects about reading when teaching, for example; helping students by pre - teaching vocabulary. It means to make them practicing vocabulary before they read the text and  I will encourage learners to practice reading by allowing them to read what they want in order to make it funnier.

I found some interesting information about this topic and I would like to share this with you.

http://es.slideshare.net/AlexisCentrellaV/teaching-reading-1

http://www.nclrc.org/essentials/reading/stratread.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBslJMq4LAg

References:

- Harmer J. (1997), text and Oxford Seminars text.

http://projectoverseas.wikispaces.com/file/view/HOW+TO+TEACH+ENGLISH.pdf

 - Spratt, M., Pulverness, A., & Williams, M. (2011). The TKT course. Ernst Klett Sprachen.