READING SKILLS AND STRATEGIES
1. Academic purposes for reading (Grabe 2009: Table 1.1, p. 8)
1.1. Reading to search for information
1.2. Reading for quick understanding
1.3. Reading to learn
1.4. Reading to integrate information
1.5. Reading to evaluate, critique, and use information
1.6. Reading for general comprehension [not considered for our project]
2. General skills and strategies:
2.1. Scanning
2.2. Skimming
2.3. Word recognition & vocabulary
2.4. Syntactic parsing
2.5. Recognising discourse structure/genre
2.6. Reading strategies that support comprehension
2.7. Fluency
2.8. Critical reading
3. Vocabulary
3.1. West’s (1953) General Service List (http://www.newgeneralservicelist.org/)
3.2. Academic Word List [it can be bought, and it’s cheap] (http://www.victoria.ac.nz/lals/resources/academicwordlist/)
3.3. Discipline-specific vocabulary – to be determined.
4. Genre/discourse structure
4.1. Text structure (top-down)
4.2. Genre: linguistic features (bottom-up) [especially those features that indicate certain moves]
4.3. Author’s stance
5. Texts to be used for instructional purposes
6. Activities to include in the app