Implementing of Reading Strategies in the Academic Process as the Productive Way of Foreign Text Understanding

Abstract

The authors of the paper put the relevant issue associated with a perception of foreign texts presented in English for pupils and students at schools and universities. It is approved that children’s and youth’s deformation of common cultural reading skills demands new working ways with foreign material. Based on “learning strategy” and “reading strategy” definitions the authors suggest the algorithm to be studied and applied in the academic process at schools and universities as the main way to understand authentic texts. Types and subtypes of reading strategies are worked out according to student reading activity at schools and universities in Russia. Moreover, the authors illustrate vivid handouts that can be used by teachers of foreign languages. The conclusion about the development of reading literacy and competence shaping is made at the end of the paper.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n6s4p390