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DEVELOPING STUDENTS’
READING SKILLS
IVANA TRAJANOSKA, MA

AIM

• The aim of this presentation is to raise the awareness on the need to constantly develop the reading skills of students.

READING FOR CONTENT
INFORMATION
• It’s important to say that when discussing reading skills, one should always have in mind the language in which we want to analyze or develop the reading skills.
• However, this presentation centers on the common strategies for developing reading skills in either the mother tongue of the student or in a foreign language (English).
• When can we implement the same strategies? The answer is when reading for content information i.e. the primary aim is not to learn the language but reading for comprehension.

WHY IS THE READING SKILL SO
IMPORTANT?
• Before I give some practical suggestions on how to develop the reading skills of our students, I would like to emphasize the importance of having well developed reading skills and why they should be constantly developed.

LANGUAGE SKILLS

READING SKILLS
• Acquired once and for all?
• Neglected?
• Last received guidelines?
• Input
• Development of the other skills
• Make distinction between fact and opinion; important information and the opposite;
• Learn to summarize, analyze, connect; develop personal opinion and ideas.

HOW CAN WE DEVELOP STUDENTS’
READING SKILLS?
• The first step towards improvement of the students’ reading skills is being aware that it is our job as instructors to help them develop the reading skills, and to include it in our course outline as an

objective among the others.

HOW CAN WE DEVELOP STUDENTS’
READING SKILLS?
• Then, students should also be (made) aware of the need for well-developed reading skills.
• Instructors should provide information on the nature of the reading skill and guidelines on how it can be improved regardless of the course they teach.
• Finally, reading shouldn’t be only assigned as