1、English for Academic Study: Reading,Session 1 Xin Zhao,Learning Objectives,This course is to develop academic reading competence. This course is based on practical rather than theoretical considerations. This course will help students apply effective reading strategies to academic texts. This course
2、 develops abilities of reading comprehension and also takes care of vocabulary work as well as text analysis.,Course Assessment,Total Score 100% Final Examination Paper 70% Others 30%Assignments 5% Class Quiz 10% Classroom Performance 10% Final Academic written report & presentation 5%,Course Requir
3、ements,Several Needs Always be brave and confident in expressing your ideas in English; Always be positive, active whenever there are discussions, debates; Always finish and submit your homework, tasks before the deadline; Always bring a dictionary with you when you have my class;,Questions to consi
4、der,Why do you read? Why do you read academic articles? Completing an assignment; Getting some relevant information of a new academic topic to help you understand a lecture; Supplementing new information about a known topic;,INTRODUCTION,4 main aspects of academic reading Reading for a specific acad
5、emic purpose Working on specific strategies that are associated with effective and successful reading; Detailed comprehension of sentences and paragraphs; Text analysis;,Strategies-Techniques,Skimming Predicting Scanning Search reading Identifying the main ideas Careful reading Inferring Dealing wit
6、h unfamiliar words,Skimming,Reading quickly and selectively for the main ideas (reading for gist)Typically, most of the text is ignored.,Scanning,Reading quickly and selectively to locate words, or other symbols, such as figures. Typically, almost all of the text is ignored. The process involves fin
7、ding an exact match between what the reader is looking for and is in the text.,Search reading,Different from Scanning; an inexact match,Careful reading,Non-selective reading; Readers read every word in the text in order to comprehend the writers meaning in the way the writer encoded it.,Text analysi
8、s,At the global level- the organisation of a text; At the local level- how information is organised logically within complex sentences or paragraphs;,Browsing,According to Kintsch & Van Dijk(1978), this occurs where people read loosely structured texts with no clear goals in mind. However, Weir & Ur
9、quhart claim that browsing does not have to just involve loosely structured texts-virtually any text of reasonable length can be browsed.,Strongly recommended,1 Task introduction Economics focus: on the move,Task 1: Deciding if a text is useful Encourage students to read selectively to achieve the r
10、eading purpose; Discourage students from reading from start to finish.,1 Task introduction Economics focus: on the move,Task 1-1.1 Step 1: Read the text with a purpose.What is the purpose of this task?(Try and find the intended reader)Step 2: Read the italicised parts of the text.(including Introduc
11、tion, Conclusion,plus Heading and Subheadings) Step 3: Discuss with your team members which is an appropriate choice and why.,Task 1.1 Who is the intended reader?,Possible reasons: The source of the text (The Economist) The type of information (fairly superficial, quite a lot of background informati
12、on that a specialist would not expect to read, not very technical) The style of writing (relatively short sentences, short paragraphs),1 Task introduction Economics focus: on the move,Task 1-1.2Step 1: Read the text with a purpose.What is the purpose of this task?(Try and predict the contents and gu
13、ess the organisation of the text.)Step 2: Read the italicised parts of the text again.(including Introduction, Conclusion,plus Heading and Subheadings) Step 3: Highlight the key words from these parts;,Key words,economics history of immigration future migration of workers economic change internation
14、al movement of labour restrict migration economic factors liberal immigration regime,Homework,Read P7-9 again to understand deeply the objectives of this course; Read Text 1-1 on P71 carefully and highlight any words, phrases, sentences which you dont understand and affect your comprehension of the text; Then look them up in the dictionary as well as have discussions with your classmates;,
