TKT PREPARATION & CERTIFICATION COURSE EFFICIENT AND INEFFICIENT READING

1. Language

2. Content

The language of the text is comprehensible

to the learners.

3. Speed

4. Attention

5. Incomprehensible

Vocabulary

6. Prediction

8. Motivation

9. Purpose

10. Strategies

The content of the text is accessible to the

learners; they know enough about it to be

able to apply their own background

knowledge.

The reading progresses fairly fast; mainly

because the reader has “automatized”

recognition of common combinations, and

does not waste time working out each word

or group of words anew.

The reader concentrates on the significant

bits, and skims the rest; may even skip parts

s/he knows to be insignificant.

The reader takes incomprehensible

vocabulary in his or her stride; guesses at its

meaning from the surrounding text, or

ignores it and manages without; uses a

dictionary only when these strategies are not

sufficient.

The reader thinks ahead, hypothesizes,

predicts.

The reader is motivated to read; by

interesting content or a challenging task.

The reader is aware of a clear purpose in

reading: for example, to find out something,

to get pleasure.

The reader uses different strategies for

different kinds of reading.

The language of the text is too difficult.

The text is too difficult in the sense that the

content is too far removed from the

knowledge and experience of the learners.

The reading is slow: the reader doesn not

have a large “vocabulary” of automatically

recognized items.

The reader pays the same amount of

attention to all parts of the text.

The reader cannot tolerate incomprehnesible

vocabulary items; stops to look every one up

in a dictionary, and/or feels discouraged from

trying to comprehend the text as a whole.

The reader doesn not think ahead, deals

with the text as it comes.

The reader does not have or use background

information.

The reader has no clear purpose other than

to obey the teacher´s instructions.

The reader uses the same strategy for all

texts.

Efficient Reading Inefficient Reading

TKT PREPARATION & CERTIFICATION COURSE EFFICIENT AND INEFFICIENT READING

1. Language

2. Content

3. Speed

4. Attention

5. Incomprehensible

Vocabulary

6. Prediction

8. Motivation

9. Purpose

10. Strategies

Efficient Reading Inefficient Reading

The language of the text is comprehensible

to the learners.

The content of the text is accessible to the

learners; they know enough about it to be

able to apply their own background

knowledge.

The reading progresses fairly fast; mainly

because the reader has “automatized”

recognition of common combinations, and

does not waste time working out each word

or group of words anew.

The reader concentrates on the significant

bits, and skims the rest; may even skip parts

s/he knows to be insignificant.

The reader takes incomprehensible

vocabulary in his or her stride; guesses at its

meaning from the surrounding text, or

ignores it and manages without; uses a

dictionary only when these strategies are not

sufficient.

The reader thinks ahead, hypothesizes,

predicts.

The reader is motivated to read; by

interesting content or a challenging task.The reader is aware of a clear purpose in

reading: for example, to find out something,

to get pleasure.

The reader uses different strategies for

different kinds of reading.

The language of the text is too difficult.

The text is too difficult in the sense that the

content is too far removed from the

knowledge and experience of the learners.

The reading is slow: the reader doesn not

have a large “vocabulary” of automatically

recognized items.

The reader pays the same amount of

attention to all parts of the text.

The reader cannot tolerate incomprehnesible

vocabulary items; stops to look every one up

in a dictionary, and/or feels discouraged from

trying to comprehend the text as a whole.

The reader doesn not think ahead, deals

with the text as it comes.

The reader does not have or use background

information.

The reader has no clear purpose other than

to obey the teacher´s instructions.

The reader uses the same strategy for all

texts.

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Cut out the squares and paste them into the spaces (from the worksheet)

that describes each of the types of reading.