Teaching English as a Foreign Language

The Teaching of Advanced Reading Skills in Foreign Languages, with Particular References to English as a Foreign Language

“…General discussion of classroom procedures (Murphy, 1969;Abiodun, 1975) improved greatly when, in the late 1960s, the text began to be seen as a 'context' for the development, by means of probing questions by the teacher, of strategies for the understanding of other texts. Before that time there had only been a few writers who had argued that the development of comprehension ability requires specific questioning strategies by the teacher (Gurrey, 1955). More recently, the nature of comprehension exercises has been widely discussed, both in useful surveys for the mother-tongue situation which have relevance to foreign-language teachers (Walker, 1974;Potts, 1976), and in writings for the foreign-language classroom (Davies & Widdowson, 1974).…”