Text Features and Reading Comprehension

This booklet illustrates the usefulness of text features as an aid to reading comprehension. Text features such as headings, italics, and lists are used so often that readers tend to ignore the assistance they can provide in reading and understanding a text, especially a non-fiction or academic text. By first examining how we use text features in our native languages, this book raises awareness of an already-familiar part of reading. Building on the awareness, this book helps readers transfer their understanding of text features to reading in a second or foreign language. Using a series of tasks and exercises, the book guides readers to use text features to activate background knowledge, identify main ideas, summarize longer texts, and synthesize information while reading in English as a second/foreign language.

Publisher: SEAMEO Regional Language Centre
SeriesPortfolio Series
Language: English
ePublication Year2023
Page count: 52
SubjectLanguage
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