第三讲阅读能力.pptVIP

Components of Reading Abilities 张Andy  OUTLINE How do you achieve comprehension? What stand in the way of comprehension? What are components of reading abilities? Two Excerpts 冻合玉楼寒起粟，光摇银海眩生花。 Before the detonation, Fermi had torn a sheet of notebook paper into bits. As he felt the first quiver of the shock wave, he released the shreds above his head. They fluttered down and landed about two and a half yards behind him. Difficulties Fish fish fish. Forbidden fruit is sweet. The mirror told me a story. They can fish here. Apart from complementary distribution, a phoneme may sometimes have free variants. Thus, approaching personal dilemmas as Fermi problems can become a habit that enriches your life. Components Word Recognition Syntactic Parsing Semantic Construction Text Model Situation Model Background Knowledge 1. Word Recognition The most fundamental requirement for fluent reading comprehension is and word recognition. 2. Syntactic Parsing Whenever I would bring any of my friends back to my room all I had to do was just glance once at Sucker and he would get up from whatever he was busy with and maybe half smile at me, and leave without saying a word. 3. Semantic Construction A third basic process that starts up automatically as we begin any reading task is the process of combining word meanings and structural information into basic clause-level meaning units. 4. Text Model The text model of comprehension is a set of main ideas that the reader develops . It amounts to an internal summary of main ideas. Text interpretation Try to summarize each paragraph: I applied for a teaching post (the reasons). I went for an interview (a long way to Croydon). The school came into sight (external description). The headmaster showed up (his appearance). I was interviewed (internal description). He introduced the teaching set-up (time, subject, etc). The teaching set-up filled me with fear (reasons). I mentioned the salary (the real boss me