ELT365 · Day 172 — Designing Pre-Reading Tasks
Idea — Pre-reading warms up the topic, activates vocabulary, and gives readers a reason to read. It should predict content, not pre-teach or spoil it. Example…
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ELT365 · Day 171 — Text Types and Genre
Idea — Genre shapes reader expectations. Knowing a text is an editorial, a recipe, or a letter changes how readers process it from the first line.…
ReadELT365 · Day 170 — Schema Theory in Reading
Idea — Schema theory holds that understanding depends on prior knowledge structures. A reader with relevant schemata comprehends faster and more accurately. Example — A text…
ReadELT365 · Day 169 — Reading Extensively
Idea — Extensive reading means reading large quantities at or below learner level, for pleasure and fluency — not for close language study. Example — A…
ReadELT365 · Day 168 — Reading Intensively
Idea — Intensive reading means reading closely for accurate understanding of meaning, language, and implication. It is slow, deliberate, and cognitively demanding. Example — Reading a…
ReadELT365 · Day 167 — Reading: Skimming
Idea — Skimming means reading quickly for a general impression — what the text is about, its tone, its structure. Readers skip freely and skip often.…
ReadELT365 · Day 166 — Reading: Scanning
Idea — Scanning means moving quickly over a text to find specific information without reading everything. It is purposeful and selective. Example — Finding a name…
ReadELT365 · Day 165 — Listening Sub-Skills
Idea — Listening is not one skill but a cluster: global comprehension, local detail, inference, deduction, attitude recognition. Good tasks target one sub-skill explicitly. Example —…
ReadELT365 · Day 164 — Grading Listening by Task, Not Text
Idea — You can grade a listening task without changing the audio — by adjusting task complexity, number of listens, and the support provided before and…
ReadELT365 · Day 163 — Authentic Audio in Class
Idea — Authentic audio was made for real speakers. It exposes reduced speech, overlapping turns, and natural pace — all things graded recordings hide. Example —…
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