Tennant, A. (year unknown). Reading matters: What is reading? One Stop English. Retrieved from http://www.onestopenglish.com/skills/reading/reading-matters/reading-matters-what-is-reading/154842.article on 26 July 2012.
The article is more interesting than its title suggests. I agree
with Tennant that recognition of words does not constitute the activity we call
reading. I also agree that we read in our first language more than we realised. We
read announcements on the pole at a bus stop, lost cat notices, corny sayings
on a stranger’s T-shirt, on a continual basis. Realising this, why should we as
classroom teachers limit ourselves to introducing long texts or texts that are
traditionally considered reading materials, in our L2 classroom? We run the
risk of overloading students with information, the difficulty burden, etc. I
will definitely take the suggestions of this article into account, and continue
to be aware of the way I teach reading in L2.
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