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Reading is a receptive type of speech activity. Speech activity
is
an active, purposeful, mediated by the language system and
determined by the situation of communication, the process of
transmitting and receiving a message.
Reading is the process of
perception and semantic processing of information graphically
encoded to the system of a particular language. Thus, in reading a
content plan (the meaning of the text) and a procedural plan (how to
read and voice the text) are distinguished. In terms of content, the
result of the activity will be the understanding of the text. In the
procedural one, the process of reading is correlation of graphemes
with phonemes, formation of internal speech hearing, etc. In order to
proceed to a meaningful plan (i.e., understanding), it is necessary to
work out a procedural reading plan well.
In the structure of reading as an activity, one can single out a
motive (communication using the printed word), a goal (obtaining
information that interests the reader),
conditions of activity
(mastering the graphic system of the language and methods of
extracting information) and a result (understanding the text with
varying degrees of accuracy). Structurally, reading, like any speech
activity, is characterized
by a level character, which determines the
phased work on learning to read. Most methodologists distinguish
the following stages in teaching reading:
1) motivational and incentive;
2) analytical and synthetic;
3) control and executive.
According to the new educational program, teaching of
reading the text is necessary since
the second grade of school; the
volume of a text for reading is about 100 words. Exercises used at
the initial stage include, for instance, reading aloud proverbs,
sayings, poems; drawing up words and
sentences from the split
alphabet; filling in gaps of letters (b…e → bye or f…ne→fi ne);
filling in the gaps in the sentence with suitable words.
At the middle and senior stages of schooling, reading
techniques are adjusted and improved. The level of development of
reading skills and abilities can be considered sufficiently high if the
student:
– automatically uses reading rules;
– knows how to articulate and intotone correctly;
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– instantly determines the graphic
image by the auditory-
motor one and vice versa;
– owns the mechanisms of visual coverage of the
compositional (structural) features of the text, combination.
Reading aloud should also take place at an advanced stage of
learning. This is a good phonetic exercise and contributes to the
development of speaking skills (it is useful to use phonetic markup).
At the senior stages of training, it is necessary
to provide exercises
aimed at developing fluency in reading to oneself. It is important to
do this work regularly. To increase the speed of reading, two
conditions are necessary: 1) regularity of reading; 2) the presence of
light interesting texts during the formation of reading skills.
There are three ways (stages) to learn to read: by reading
whole words, whole phrases and sentences and reading the text.
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