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- Title
Combining Timed Reading Tasks with the Academic Reading Circles Approach.
- Authors
Cooke, Martin
- Abstract
Our institution runs intensive one and two-year foreign language and business skills courses for graduates of Taiwanese universities, and learners complete a I Reading Skills i course in their first term. i I The questions should test general understanding rather than detailed knowledge i I The focus is speed - if learners are getting all the questions right, they are reading too slowly. However, in subsequent terms the ability to quickly read texts sometimes dissipates, especially as learners encounter more challenging and detailed texts relating to their business courses. Our own adapted texts had not provided the anticipated "boost" for learners in the BRD course, and many students returned to reading slowly.
- Subjects
GROUP reading; READING comprehension
- Publication
Humanising Language Teaching, 2021, Vol 23, Issue 1, pN.PAG
- ISSN
1755-9715
- Publication type
Article