While reading activities
These should aim at helping the students practice different approaches to texts
such as to read for gist (skimming), to read for detail (scanning) or to read for a fuller
understanding according to the purpose and to develop lower order skills such as
cultivation of vocabulary, and linguistic structures.
Post reading activities
These should help the reader retrieve and apply the new information by
relating it to her personal experience. It is also a good opportunity for students to read
extensively. According to Nuttall (1982:127) extensive reading is the easiest and most
effective way of improving reading skills. Moreover, it increases reading rate and
helps the reader approach topics from another point of view which is a necessary
process towards critical reading.
1.3.2. Feedback
Teachers should always provide students with positive feedback about their
progress so that they are encouraged to read more and evaluation should aim not to
test but to praise strong points and spot weaknesses. Thus, questions should not focus
on the product but on the process of reading .As Nuttall (1982:127) puts it
“Questioning in the reading class is not an attempt to test. The purpose is to make the
student aware of the way language is used to convey meaning, and of the strategies he
can use to recover the meaning from the text”.
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