Transcript Reading Skills

1. Taking a positive attitude
and reading actively
Reading is a kind of interactivity
between authors and readers.
Reader’s comprehension to the
material depends on:
1) the subject of the material
2) the type of the material
3) the difficulty of the material
4) the reading skills of the reader
So, it is very important for
readers to be active.
Are you an active reader?
Let’s do a test!
If you choose 2, 3, 5, 8 , 10, it’s
good, but if you choose 1, 4, 6,
7, 9, it means your attitude need
to be improved.
1 I read texts from beginning to end without stopping.
2 I stop reading to look at figures, charts, or other graphics and
try to relate them to the rest of the text.
3 When I get confused, I mark the passage or make a note to
ask about it later.
4 I usually have trouble deciding what is important in a text or
other assigned reading.
5 I often see a connection between what I read in textbooks and
my life or course content.
6 I rarely underline, mark, or make notes when I read.
7 I can’t decide what I should underline or mark.
8 Even if I’m not interested in what I’m reading, I’ll still able to
decide what is important.
9 My only reason for reading is that the instructor has assigned it.
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I usually have a purpose for reading– something I want to
know or need to find out.
1 I read texts from beginning to end without stopping.
2 I stop reading to look at figures, charts, or other graphics and
try to relate them to the rest of the text.
3 When I get confused, I mark the passage or make a note to
ask about it later.
4 I usually have trouble deciding what is important in a text or
other assigned reading.
5 I often see a connection between what I read in textbooks and
my life or course content.
6 I rarely underline, mark, or make notes when I read.
7 I can’t decide what I should underline or mark.
8 Even if I’m not interested in what I’m reading, I’ll still able to
decide what is important.
9 My only reason for reading is that the instructor has assigned it.
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I usually have a purpose for reading– something I want to
know or need to find out.
2. Breaking off bad reading
habits
• To improve your reading speed,
you must overcome some bad
habits:
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1) vocalizing【音读】
2) sub-vocalizing【默读】
3) head waging【阅读时移动头部】
4) regressing 【回读】
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3. Self-pacing
• Use self-pacing to improve your
reading speed.
• Self-pacing is to give your eyes
an object which they can follow
with, such as your hand, your
pen or a card.
• Set your hand as an example:
Hand Position-guiding technique
Line of Point
Movement of Hand
off
on
on
off
off
• Time: 1 minute
• Material: logical, not too difficult
• Method:
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use self-spacing to read for
one minute, and try to write
down the content what you
have read, just key words. Then
once again, speed up and try to
write more.
4. Expanding recognition span
• Reading is composed of a
series of fixations.
• For example:
• If you are a slow reader,
you probably have a
fixation and a fixation Point of
fixation
pause for every single
word.
Point of
fixation
Eye span
To increase your reading rate
and become a rapid reader,
you should practice finding a
fixation point in the middle of
a phrase
or a word group
comprising a thought unit, so
that you perceive this entire
word group or thought unit
during a brief fixation pause.
5. Skimming for writing
objectives
• What is skimming?
• When we skim, we should pay
attention to title, subtitle,
beginning, ending and topic
sentences.
• The author must write for some
objective:
• Such as describing, demonstrating,
illustrating, persuading, complaining…
• We can get the author’s objective from:
• Title
• Key words
• Last paragraph
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Starting Your Own Business
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Many people, particularly recent
college graduates, dream of owning their
own businesses. Although such ventures
are often exciting and profitable, the new
entrepreneur should thoroughly
investigate and plan a situation before
plunging in. The first step should be to
assemble a board of advisers, including
a lawyer, an accountant, and an
insurance representatives.
Why English
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This flexibility helps to explain
why English has survive so well,
why it can vary so much from
speaker and why it has become a
word language.
6. Skimming for basic
structures
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Basic structures include:
1) time order
2) space order
3) process
4) general → specific / specific
→ general
• 5) comparison / contrast
• 6) cause - effect
• 7) alphabetical order