How Do You Teach Reading To (Intermediate And Advanced) EFL/ESL Learners?
Teaching the receptive skill of reading to intermediate and advanced learners of English can be a lot of fun. Try this method the next time you have a group of upper level English language learners in your EFL/ESL classroom. Choose something you’d like students to read from an EFL or ESL textbook or better yet, choose something authentic that you find on the internet or in your local community. Read through your chosen piece of text carefully and ask yourself if there are any words or expressions, that you’ll need to pre-teach to your students before the reading begins. Don’t choose too many. If you find too many words that need to be defined, consider rewriting, modifying and shortening the text. Underline or highlight all words and expressions that you plan on pre-teaching on your students’ copies. Before beginning your classroom reading, activate your students schemata (background information) by showing them pictures that relate to the text or asking them questions about the text t
