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Reading Strategies for ESL  Reinforcement
by Lucille Lever
 

The  Importance of Rereading to Improve Vocabulary and  Comprehension -
 
Reading a passage once is  not enough for  true comprehension and language development,
 in the English as a  Second Language  classroom
.

 When   students complete their first reading of a passage or essay, this should not
  mean the end of the work, but rather the starting point for rereading, in order
  to understand the meaning, and absorb new vocabulary and grammar
  structures.
 Rereading   acts as a mechanism for the brain to process information, photograph the
  spelling of new words, and put together old and new language concepts. As
  students often read aloud in the classroom, the practice of rereading has a
  number of advantages. It
helps  students
- pronounce better and
trains  the  readers to articulate more fluently when reading aloud 
-
guides  the  students to work through a passage 
-
helps   students find their own reading strategies that work 
-
teaches  learners to skim and scan 
-
illustrates  comprehension strategies 
-
encourages  students to feel more confident 
 

Repetition as a Means of Learning
 Learning  by  heart has become antiquated, yet many students learn from repetition.
Rereading  adds this option by giving the task of going over the texts for a
second or  third time for better absorption of new material, in the hope that
the new  information becomes part of the learners’ knowledge.
 Tapes, CDs , DVDs for Listening Practice
 The   rereading can also be done via listening to recorded material. Students do not
  have to do the reading by themselves, but can listen to prerecorded texts while
  reading silently. This method has its own advantages; hearing another reader
  will also fortify the new vocabulary and grammar.
 A   professional voice on a CD may also expose the student to different accents,
  fluency and speed. Hearing and understanding the text read by an English
speaker  gives the learners the encouragement that they understand real English.
  Listening to a text also serves as a model for students to emulate so that on a
  third reading, students may be able to read aloud with positive results in
  fluency, emulation and expression.
 Reading Aloud
 Reading  aloud doesn’t reflect the true comprehension of students, but merely shows the
  skill of seeing, deciphering and producing sounds. The problem for teachers,
  however, is that one of the ways to check that students can read is to have
them  read aloud.
 Because  of  the gap that exists between real comprehension and the reading aloud of the
text  (even if it sounds very fluent), it is essential to have student s read
silently  to ensure that they have understood the new information. To enable
  comprehension, give the students an appropriate amount of time to ask
questions,  refer to dictionaries, and write responses to the questions about
the  text.
 Even if  the  teacher also reads a passage to the students, if there is not a rereading
task  that the students undertake alone, it will not ensure that they have
understood,  formulated answers or internalized anything. Rushing  through a
text once is a waste of time and teachers should not assume that the
  material is understood, and no longer necessary for working on. It is also a
  pity to waste well formulated ideas that were prepared by authors for learners.
  Teachers should take advantage of a text, using it, kneading it, working it,
  until it is well formed and ultimately consumed by the student.
 Developing Reading Confidence
 Essential in  the process of ESL, is the progress that students should feel they are
making as  they undertake more difficult texts. They should feel improvement,
increased  knowledge, and confidence to pick up a complex reading passage, work
through it  slowly, reread it a number of times, and have better understanding
on completion  of the task.

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