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Teaching Reading: Asking the Right Questions
Author(s) -
Babcockx Arthur E.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
foreign language annals
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.258
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1944-9720
pISSN - 0015-718X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1944-9720.1985.tb00970.x
Subject(s) - reading (process) , meaning (existential) , linguistics , foreign language , psychology , extensive reading , pedagogy , mathematics education , philosophy , psychotherapist
Reading in foreign language classes is an important source of the comprehensible input that fosters second language acquisition. Available materials, however, do not always encourage reading for meaning. Rather, they invite teachers and students to disregard meaning and concentrate on form. A reexamination of some widely held ideas about reading materials is overdue.