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Junior Joined: Mar 17, 2009 Posts: 18

Introduction
Reading is the receptive skill in the written mode. It can develop independently of listening and speaking skills, but often develops along with them, especially in societies with a highly-developed literary tradition. Reading can help build vocabulary that helps listening comprehension at the later stages, particularly.
Micro-skills
Here are some of the micro-skills involved in reading. The reader has to:
• decipher the script. In an alphabetic system or a syllabary, this means establishing a relationship between sounds and symbols. In a pictograph system, it means associating the meaning of the words with written symbols.
• recognize vocabulary.
• pick out key words, such as those identifying topics and main ideas.
• figure out the meaning of the words, including unfamiliar vocabulary, from the (written) context.
• recognize grammatical word classes: noun, adjective, etc.
• detect sentence constituents, such as subject, verb, object, prepositions, etc.
• recognize basic syntactic patterns.
• reconstruct and infer situations, goals and participants.
• use both knowledge of the world and lexical and grammatical cohesive devices to make the foregoing inferences, predict outcomes, and infer links and connections among the parts of the text.
• get the main point or the most important information.
• distinguish the main idea from supporting details.
• adjust reading strategies to different reading purposes, such as skimming for main ideas or studying in-depth.

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Newbie Joined: Apr 13, 2009 Posts: 7

I think I f you want to be good at Reading!Okey,First of all You should have a lot of vocabulary so as to improve your confidence....Second,you should also do many exercises as you can,,.Victory!

Senior Joined: Feb 16, 2009 Posts: 31

I often have some prolems when reading,there are a lot of new words which i meet the first time,so what should i do in this situation? can y help me.

Senior Joined: Feb 23, 2009 Posts: 32

I used to have such a problem like you.I think in the first time you read, you don't need to know all new words ,just read through the reading and try to get the meaning so that you can remember them longer than. I hope it 'll do you good.Good luck! Smile

Senior Joined: Feb 16, 2009 Posts: 31

uhm...thank you for your help.I will do it.

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