Questão 2493789

- This text refers to questions 36 and 37.

Reading Instruction

Reading, perhaps more than any other language skill, provides the foundation for success in language learning and academic learning. Janzen (2007) observes that reading is “critical” to the academic achievement of second-language learners (p.707). Reading involves the integration of various bottom-up and top-down skills in order to reach the goal of comprehension. Good readers can combine information from a text and their own background knowledge to build meaning, they read fluently and strategically in order to accomplish their reading purpose.

Good readers have higher success in writing when they have a solid knowledge base that has been developed through wide reading. Good readers have fundamental skills to listen someone to talk about a topic they have read and they have a higher success of understanding. Good readers have higher success in speaking tasks when they have gained input through reading. It is difficult to imagine an academically successful individual in the twenty-first century who is not an avid and effective reader.

ANDERSON, J. Neil. Reading instruction. In: BURNS, A., RICHARDS, C. JACK.(Ed.) The Cambridge Guide to Pedagogy and Practice in Second Language Teaching. Cambridge; CUP, 2012, p 218.

After reading the text, one can conclude that: