1. READING AS A STRATEGIC PROCESS 1. What’s reading? 2. Why do we read? 3. Skills Vs Strategy 4. Metacognitive skills – Metacognitive Process _ The Importance and dimensions of Metacognitive ability 5. A Reading Strategy List 6. Exercise – SCANNING
2. READING AS A STRATEGIC PROCESS ARGEMIRO AMAYA BUELVAS Especialista en ELT C. Magister in Education
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4. Reading for information (in order to find out something or in order to do something with the information you get)”Grellet (1981)
5. SKILLS VS STRATEGIES Skill Strategy - Observable behaviours (answers to questions, answers on tests, skills list, and taxonomies). - A conscious plan under the control of the reader. - Product- oriented. - Generally thought to be unobservable. - Process-oriented. - Instructions focuses on ways to help students understand what they read.
6. WHAT IS METACOGNITION? What does it mean to successfully "contextualize and operationalise" strategies,…or to "be able to apply strategies strategically,“ That, I believe, is where metacognition comes in. Metacognition is "cognition about cognition," or "thinking about thinking."
7. THE IMPORTANCE OF METACOGNITIVE ABILITY According to O'Malley, et al., "students without metacognitive approaches are essentially learners without direction or opportunity to review their progress, accomplishments, and future directions" (1985, p. 561).
8. THE DIMENSIONS OF METACOGNITIVE ABILITY Two dimensions: (1) knowledge of cognition (2) regulation of cognition (Flavell, 1978). The first aspect of metacognition, "knowledge about cognition," includes three components "declarative," "procedural," and "conditional" (Paris, Lipson, and Wixson, 1983). .