Characteristics of the Main Types of Reading for Training at the Universities
Ibrohimova Lobar Ishokovna, a teacher
Uzbekistan State World Languages University (Tashkent)
T
he content of learning to read includes linguistic,
psychological and methodological components. Here we
consider them in more detail.
The linguistic component is letters, words, phrases,
sentences. Mastering the letter, students should be able
to name it and the sound that it transmits. However, the
minimum unit of learning to read is a word that allows you to
master the technique of reading: dubbing a graphic image of
a word according to the rules of reading or by memorizing the
image of a word and associating this image with a meaning,
that is, understand what is read.
Reading phrases teaches not only the articulation of a word,
but also the placement of stresses according to the norms
of the language. When reading sentences, the same thing
happens, and the intonation design of sentences is also added.
The psychological component includes evolving skills and
reading skills based on mastering actions and operations.
Since reading has procedural and substantive plans, the skills
and abilities formed during learning to read fall into two large
groups:
1) technical reading skills;
2) skills and semantic information processing.
When teaching reading by the communicative method, it is
important that the unity of the content and procedural plans be
manifested, that is, the texts simultaneously served to develop
the reading technique and were the source of information. It
is necessary for the tasks intended for the development of the
reading technique to give a more motivated character (for
example, to read the text as if you were telling it yourself).
Skills of semantic processing of information constitute the
essence of the reading itself. The ability to read means the
ability to extract meaningful information, which means not
only an understanding of what is expressed explicitly, that is,
by the language means themselves, but also implicitly, that is,
an understanding of information that lies outside the language
constructs, implications, in other words, understanding the
meaning. Such reading implies mastering the following skills:
— anticipate the content of the text;
— isolate the most important;
— shorten the text by eliminating redundant information
(pass the content of the paragraph 1–2 sentences);
— to interpret, that is, to understand the subtext, the
semantic content, to express their own attitude to the
read.
Methodological component — teaching students how
to master reading in a foreign language, which leads to the
formation of an individual reading style.
Learning reading as a type of speech activity begins at an
advanced stage of learning. It is important for children to show
that reading is also communication but mediated through the
text. It is important to teach them the process of reading, to
show that there is much in the text that helps to understand
its content, the intention of the author.
Two important rules of reading: firstly, to read does not
mean to translate and, secondly, to understand the text, it
is not necessary to know every word. Below is a diagram of
the «penetration» into a foreign language text, which clearly
shows the correct chain of actions characteristic of a «mature»
reader [1].
Reading is not a stable activity, either by result or in
procedural terms. Thus, it always appears in one of its specific
manifestations — the species.
The second task we consider the ability to work with
a bilingual dictionary. This skill is generally an integral
component of the culture of human cognitive activity.
Unfortunately, many students are not trained in this: before
picking up a dictionary, they write out unfamiliar words from
the text in a column, then put aside the readable text, and start
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