improving acaemic reading skills

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IMPROVING ACADEMIC READING SKILLS

I Made Sujana

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Academic Reading?

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a very sophisticated, multi-layered skill,

requiring practice and fine tuning.

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Reading an academic text differs in many

ways from reading comics, novels and

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How does the Acad. Reading differ from other types of

reading (novel, comic, etc.)?

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What we read?

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content and style of

academic texts

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What do authors in academic texts do?

(Content and style)

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Raise abstract questions and issues

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Present facts and evidence to support their

claims

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Use logic to build their arguments and defend

their position

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Conform clearly-defined structures

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Choose their words carefully to present the

arguments

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When reading academic texts, what are expected from the

readers?

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Recognize the authors’ purposes and possible

bias

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Differentiate between facts and authors’

opinions.

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Challenge questionable assumption and

unsupported claims.

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Integrate information across multiple sources

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Identify rival hypothesis, possible contradictions

and competing views

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Why is Reading Academic Texts Difficult?

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They are written originally for native speakers

of English, not for non-Native Speakers

(NNS)

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Sources of Difficulty:

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Linguistics

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the store of technical terms of each subject matter

which differs from the other field, the focused syntax and special

linguistic features

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Rhetoric

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the organization of the language, the presentation of

the knowledge, and the writer’s assumptions about the readers

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WHAT NEED TO BE DEVELOPED IN ACADEMIC READING?

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Being an effective reader

(related to reading

speed, understanding structures of texts, making

decision about text)

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Being an active

reader

(retaining information

and note-making)

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Being a critical

reader

(related to interaction

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Getting Started for being a Critical Reader

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Ask yourself:

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Can I believe everything I read?

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Are experts always right?

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What make me take more notice of one academic

writer and less to another?

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What make research findings weak or strong?

What make a scholarly, rigorous piece of

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NOTE-MAKING

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Good notes require:

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Speed

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Accuracy

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Clarity

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Note-making is a two stage process:

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The notes that are taken from a piece of writing

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THREE ELEMENTS IN GOOD NOTE-MAKING

WHAT YOU DO

HOW YOU DO IT

Reading and planning

Accurate analysis of text

Note-making

Rapid note writing

Note reading and

developement as

writing/speaking

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REMINDER - IN ACADEMIC READING:

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DON’T read only for INFORMATION (Surface

Reading Approach)

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Let’s Start the Academic Reading

Choose an article and find out answers to the following

questions:

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Who is the author’s audience?

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What are the central claims of the text?

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What is the main evidence?

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What assumptions lie behind the evidence or arguments?

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Do you think the assumptions are founded on adequate

proof?

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What methodology was used?

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References

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Reading Academically accessed from

http://www.personal.psu.edu/scs15/Reading

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Academic Reading accessed from

http://telem.openu.ac.il/RoadsToAcademicReading/BarHome?do=home

Page&page=academicReading

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Academic Reading Strategies accessed from

http://writingcenter.unc.edu/esl/resources/academic-reading-strategies/

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Sujana, I Made, 2012. Integrating a Mind Mapping Technique and

Information Gap Activities in Teaching Academic Reading in English

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ENJOY YOUR ACADEMIC READING FOR

SUCCESS OF YOUR STUDY