Types of Reading

TYPES OF READING

There are four types of reading :

1. Intensive Reading.

2. Extensive Reading

3. Aloud Reading

4. Silent Reading

I have already been shared about Intensive and Extensive reading. Now I will shared about  reading aloud and Silent reading.

READING ALOUD

Reading aloud also play important role in teaching of English. Teacher should know that the training of reading aloud must be given at primary level because it is the base of words pronunciation. If it is not cared, it will be vary difficult at secondary level. According to S.Venkateswaran reading aloud is not useful at the secondary level because of the following reasons:

1.    It is very difficult skill. In unseen text or in other text there are many words which student does not know how to pronounce it.

2.    If student have riot prepared himself for reading, it will be very difficult for him. The reading will

3.    be unnatural.

4.    Reading basically is reading silently.

5.    According to Venktes, only those text should be read aloud, which have been written to read aloud like poetry, dialogue, and other type of text. The texts which have no need not to read aloud should not be read aloud.

How to make reading aloud interesting :

English teaching is very important task at secondary level. Because at this stage learner comes in contact of other people and have to talk and read any subject matter. So it becomes very necessary for him to pronounce very well in English. In their academic college they have to read and read so the skill of reading becomes very important for learners. What the teacher can do for better and effective teaching of reading as under:

1.    The material which teacher present before students should be according to previous knowledge of the students or related their own experience.

2.    The teacher should emphasize on the stress of learners.

3.    The teacher should be very careful while process of reading is going on. If any mistake is committed by learners, he should correct it. Correction should be friendly and productive.

4.    The teacher should care about all readers. He should also draw his attention toward weak readers.

5.    While teacher present model reading, this model reading should be according the level of readers so that readers could understand it very well and pronounce very well.

Advantage of Aloud Reading :

1.    It enables learner to develop the skill of reading very well by speaking or expressing ideas.

2.    It enables learner to develop the skill of pronounce very well.

3.    It makes reading very enjoyable while teacher uses reinforcement during reading.

4.    Language learning is a kind of imitation. When teacher says anything or read any text, the learner also tries to imitate that. So teacher should have innovative ideas so that it can make this activity very affective.

Disadvantage of Aloud Reading :

1.    Over crowed class is very big problem. The teacher can not provide sufficient opportunities to all students.

2.    At earlier stage reading aloud is very necessary. If enough training of reading aloud is not given

3.    at primary level, it will be difficult to read aloud at secondary stage.

4.    Only bright and intelligent students learn to read aloud very well because they get chance frequently while average/students hardly get the chanced of reading. So they become the passive learners.

5.   Reading aloud takes more time so it is time consuming. All students can not read at a time so managing classroom becomes impossible.

SILENT READING

Silent reading is a very important skill in teaching of English. This reading should be employed to increase reading ability among learners. Silent reading is done to acquire a lot of information. Teacher has to make them read silently as and when they are able to read without any difficulties. It is kind of habit in which learner are enabled to read without any audible whisper.

How to make Reading Interesting :

Teaching reading is very important skill because this is the stage where the knowledge of learners starts to flight. The selection of reading material should be authentic. How the teacher can make his teaching reading effective:

1. Teacher should tell about the topic first to the learners. He should motivate students. Teacher should not read first but he should allow the students to read the text.

2. Teacher should not allow the student to murmuring while reading.

3. The subject matter should be interested and effective and selected from the reading material developed for it.

4. Eclectic approach can be used by teacher for better comprehension and understanding.

Advantage of Silent Reading :

1. This reading makes students very active and accurate.

2. Silent reading concentrates the attention of learners toward subject matter and he learns naturally.

3. It saves time because this activity is done at a time. All students participate together in this activity at a time.

4. It is very useful to develop the skill of reading fast.

5. This skill plays main role to increase the knowledge of students.

Disadvantage of Silent Reading :

1. This technique is not useful at earlier stage of language learning.

2. Through this skill one can learn the pronunciation.

3. In this skill the leaner can cheat the teacher if subject matter is not interested.

4. Only bright and intelligent students can learn this skill but average students learn it hardly.




Reference :

M.F. Patel, M. Jain Praveen.2008. English Language Teaching(Methods, Tools & Techniques). Jaipur: sunrise