Teaching Reading: A Personal View!

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Teaching Reading

A Personal View!

By Daniel de Jesús Víquez-Vargas

Pre-Service Teacher, School of English

Faculty of Social Sciences

Universidad Latina de Costa Rica

Tuesday, April 25, 2016

Post 255

Reading is, in my opinion, the most important skill in teaching a language. Language provides vocabulary in context which is very important to learn in English, a language that has many words and those words can mean different things depending on the context.

By means of reading, students are also exposed to grammar structures, and reading unquestionably brings many different benefits to the language acquisition process each student undergoes in and outside the classroom (Harmer, 2007). The hard part of teaching reading is the fact that to really take the most of it, is that it has to be a habit.

As I mentioned before, reading has a lot of advantages. In language acquisition is the most important of the skills. A world of vocabulary is found in books, and it is very crucial that students get to read, not only for vocabulary but also for the structures.

Another thing that we need to learn about English is that language can change and most books present a lot of slang from different regions of English-speaking countries. Also, we have learned the difference between extensive and intensive reading and their importance for all learners. Sometimes the best way to catch student’s attention about reading is to give them something about their interest and in that way they will read for pleasure, and they really will pay attention to what they are reading. In this way, extensive and intensive reading can really take place.

In conclusion, reading is very important. However, to really take advantage of it, we have to make it a habit, learn how to learn for pleasure ant take the taste out of it. A really good book can give us a good experience and something to spend quality time. Maybe this generation may not be much into reading, but we have to make students read, for their benefit.

Reference

Harmer, J. (2007). "Teaching Reading". how to Teach English. Person Longman.