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    The document discusses language learning skills and strategies. It identifies the four main language skills as listening, speaking, reading and writing, and categorizes them as either productive (speaking and writing) or receptive (reading and listening). It defines the differences between skills, strategies and tactics, with skills being automatic long-term plans, strategies being conscious long-term plans, and tactics being conscious short-term plans. The document then focuses on strategies for reading comprehension, identifying main strategies, how they can be classified, and the purposes of reading.

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    COLLEGE OF ARTS

    Department of Applied English

    ADVANCED READING
    Sami Al-Heeh

    2020-2021
    Advanced Reading
    Or
    Language Learning Skills
    How many language learning skills are there?
    There are four.
    1. Listening
    2. Speaking
    3. Reading
    4. Writing
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    How can the language learning skills be sub-
    classified?
    Into two:
    A) Productive including speaking & writing
    B) Receptive including reading and listening

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    Skills vs. Strategies & Tactics
    How can these terms be defined?
    They are all defined as mental plans.
    Are there any differences between them?
    Yes, there are.
    • A Skill is defined as an automatic, sub-conscious, long-
    term mental plan.
    • A strategy is a deliberate, conscious, long-term mental
    plan.
    • A tactic is a deliberate, conscious, but short-term
    mental plan.
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    Language Learning Strategies
    How can language learning strategies be used?
    They are used for:
    1. READING to comprehend texts, i.e. to
    understand what is read.
    2. LISTENING to comprehend what is said.

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    So what?
    The strategy sounds RECEPTIVE.
    They can only be:
    A) Strategies of reading for comprehension
    B) Strategies of listening for comprehension

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    What are main strategies of reading for comprehension?
    1. Skimming for main ideas
    2. Scanning for specific details
    3. Using dictionaries
    4. Making use of word formation
    5. Making use of visuals
    6. Making use of text features, such as headings and
    titles
    7. Keeping meaning in mind.
    8. Asking questions

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    How can strategies of reading comprehension be
    classified?
    Into:
    1. Cognitive strategies that help you learn
    knowledge. They provide knowledge
    2. Metacognitive strategies that help you learn
    how to learn. They help you reach knowledge.
    3. Affective or Social strategies that you get
    knowledge through asking others.

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    Purposes of Reading
    Why do we read texts?
    • For entertainment
    • For comprehension
    • For writing
    • For analysis
    • For critique

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    What is a text or a discourse?
    A unit of language above that of a paragraph

    What can a text be?


    Spoken or written

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