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Teaching Reading Skills in a Foreign Language

by Christine Nuttall

Learning to be an effective reader is a vital part of becoming a successful user of English, whether for work or for study. But what is involved in effective reading? And how can we help students become effective readers? Using insights from discourse analysis, Teaching Reading Skills describes how the texts we read are organised to communicate meanings efficiently. It suggests ways of helping students to develop into effective readers in a foreign language and provides teachers with practical, usable classroom techniques.

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Chappie’s discussion starters

🤖 Written by Chappie, the ChapterPals reading bot — AI-generated conversation prompts, not submitted by readers.

  1. Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
  2. Was there a moment where you disagreed with a character’s choice? What would you have done?
  3. What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
  4. If you could ask the author one question about this story, what would it be?
  5. Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?