Learning is a complex procedure that goes on in the person’s brain. The fast rhythm of the 21st century forces us not just to live faster but also to learn faster to catch up with our peers. But how to make learning quicker and where to start? In this article we are going to reveal...
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Most Essential Reading Skills
At first glance, reading may seem a learning skill which can be acquired with ease. However, reading requires very complex cognitive skills. For ESL students, particularly, proper reading skills are not only important in terms of the comprehension of the reading material but also for the ability to analyze texts and understand their messages. In...
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Is reading aloud still legal?
Reading aloud has recently been stigmatized in modern classrooms. The reasons are simple: we don’t read aloud that much in real life, it doesn’t improve speaking skills, it’s far from being communicative. Sounds reasonable, you might say. However, reading aloud still has its benefits, especially while teaching teens and adults. First, it links written and...
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How to implement narrow reading
In the previous article we had a look at the concept of narrow reading which is reading a variety of texts on the same, ‘narrow’ topic. That is what we quite often do in real life immersing ourselves in our hobbies or work-related texts. ‘But you can’t make a teenager read nowadays!” people say. That...
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Stages of a Reading Lesson
Practicing reading skills is one of the cornerstones of language learning. They not only improve the overall language competence but also enhance the learners’ critical thinking, analytical skills and as a source of information. In order to have a productive reading session the teacher must conduct the lesson following these stages: pre-reading – to prepare...
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Narrow reading
Have you ever heard of narrow reading? What’s that? This term was introduced and popularized by a linguist Stephen Krashen. Narrow reading alongside with narrow listening means consuming a variety of texts on the same, ‘narrow’ topic. They might be books written by one author or just a selection of stories around a student’s scope...
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How to Improve Reading Comprehension
Good readers are active readers. To make kids active readers we should make them interested in the subject. However, it’s impossible to do if they struggle with reading or language skills. In that case, it is pretty hard to enjoy reading and most kids can be reluctant to do it. Reading comprehension is the ability...
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Novel “The sun also rises” by Ernest Hemingway, part 3
Hopefully, homereading tasks for the first two parts of the book were found useful by your students. Now it’s time to cover and analyze the whole book. The given worksheet discusses the 3rd part of the book. You can find the first two ones here and here. And what about you? What books do you...
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Shared reading
If you don’t know how to vary activities in your class and how to enhance students’ comprehension, then shared reading is exactly for you. What is it – ‘Shared Reading’? Shared reading is an interactive way of reading literature; a teacher reads a book or a novel aloud (thus modelling the way students may read...
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What is special about the Reading Section in TOEFL iBT?
There are many international exams in English, and most of them, if not all, include Reading as a tested skill. Multiple choice, True/False/Not Given, Matching (e.g. headings to paragraphs, or people to their opinions) – those are typical types of questions a candidate may expect. However, TOEFL iBT may surprise even an experienced test-taker. You...
