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Foreign Language Teaching Methods
                       Dr. Janet Swaffar, Reading Module Instructor

Definitions of Reading

Among the many definitions of reading that have arisen in recent decades, three prominent ideas emerge as most critical for understanding what “learning to read” means:

• Reading is a process undertaken to reduce uncertainty about meanings a text conveys.

• The process results from a negotiation of meaning between the text and its reader.

• The knowledge, expectations, and strategies a reader uses to uncover textual meaning all play decisive roles way the reader negotiates with the text’s meaning.

Reading does not draw on one kind of cognitive skill, nor does it have a straightforward outcome — most texts are understood in different ways by different readers.


Background Knowledge

For foreign language learners to read, they have to be prepared to use various abilities and strategies they already possess from their reading experiences in their native language. They will need the knowledge they possess to help orient themselves in the many dimensions of language implicated in any text. Researchers have established that the act of reading is a non-linear process that is recursive and context-dependent. Readers tend to jump ahead or go back to different segments of the text, depending on what they are reading to find out.

Goals

Asking a learner to “read” a text requires that teachers specify a reading goal. One minimal goal is to ask the learner to find particular grammatical constructions or to identify words that relate to particular features or topics of the reading. But such goals are always only partial. For example, a text also reveals a lot about the readers for which it is written and a lot about subject matter that foreign language learners may or may not know or anticipate.

A Holistic Approach to Reading

The curriculum described here is called a holistic curriculum, following Miller (1996). Holistic education is concerned with connections in human experience – connections between mind and body, between linear thinking and intuitive ways of knowing, between academic disciplines, between the individual and the community A holistic curriculum emphasizes how the parts of a whole relate to each other to form the whole. From this perspective, reading relates to speaking, writing, listening comprehension, and culture.

Pedagogical Stages of Reading

Ideally, each text used in such a curriculum should be pedagogically staged so that learners approach it by moving from pre-reading, through initial reading, and into rereading. This sequence carefully moves the learner from comprehension tasks to production tasks. In addition, these tasks should build upon each other in terms of increasing cognitive difficulty.


Pre-Reading: The initial levels of learning, as described in Bloom’s Taxonomy, involve recognizing and comprehending features of a text. As proposed here, pre-reading tasks involve speaking, reading, and listening.

Initial Reading: Initial reading tasks orient the learner to the text and activate the cognitive resources that are associated with the learner’s own expectations. For example, discussions of genres and stereotypes may help the learner to identify potential reading difficulties and to strategize ways to overcome these challenges. Simple oral and written reproduction tasks should precede more complex production tasks that call for considering creative thinking about several issues at the same time.

Rereading:In rereading, the learner is encouraged to engage in active L2 production such as verbal or written analysis and argumentation. These activities require longer and more complex discourse. At this point, the language learner’s critical thinking needs to interact with their general knowledge. Ideally, cultural context and the individual foreign language learner’s own identity emerge as central to all acts of production.

Available at:<https://coerll.utexas.edu> .
Acessed on: August 8th, 2018. 
The text advises that a teacher should
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A alternativa correta é a B - especificar a reading goal when asking a learner to read.

A questão aborda o tema do ensino da leitura no contexto do aprendizado de uma língua estrangeira, especificamente as metodologias e abordagens pedagógicas que devem ser adotadas pelos professores. O texto de referência destaca a importância de definir objetivos claros e específicos ao pedir que um aluno realize uma atividade de leitura, enfatizando que esses objetivos são fundamentais para orientar o aprendizado e a compreensão do texto.

A seguir, vamos analisar cada alternativa:

Alternativa A: "anticipate what a text may teach to reading learners." Esta alternativa foca em prever o que o texto pode ensinar aos alunos. Embora a antecipação seja uma habilidade importante no ensino, o texto enfatiza mais a necessidade de definir objetivos específicos de leitura, e não apenas a antecipação do conteúdo.

Alternativa B: "specify a reading goal when asking a learner to read." Esta é a alternativa correta, pois o texto claramente aconselha que os professores devem especificar um objetivo de leitura quando solicitam que o aluno leia um texto. Isso é crucial para direcionar a atenção do aluno e garantir que ele saiba o que procurar e como interpretar o texto.

Alternativa C: "concentrate on grammatical points with a learner." Focar em pontos gramaticais é importante, mas o texto aborda a leitura de uma maneira mais ampla, abrangendo a compreensão e a negociação de significados, e não apenas a gramática.

Alternativa D: "assign minimal goals for themselves when teaching reading." Atribuir objetivos mínimos para si mesmo ao ensinar leitura não é aconselhado pelo texto. O texto sugere que os objetivos de leitura devem ser bem definidos e envolventes, para que o aluno possa obter uma compreensão holística do material.

Em resumo, a questão exige do aluno a compreensão de que um professor deve definir objetivos específicos de leitura para orientar o aprendizado dos alunos de forma eficiente e estruturada.

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