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Making use of syntactic, logical and

cultural clues to discover the meaning

of unknown elements.When encounter with new text better

not explain the words

Student should be encouraged to guessthe meaning of the words withoutreferring to the dictionary.


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Specific aim:Specific aim: To train the students to read faster

and to recognize words more quickly

Skills involved:Skills involved:

Inferring the meaning of incompletewords. Predicting.


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Inability to infer the meaning of unknown

elements often causes

Discouragement Apprehension (synonym of dread)


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A similar problem also arrives when

student are unable to get an immediate

grasp of sentence structures which willbring a problem to the student whendealing with:-

Texts with relative clause

x My mother bought the cookies from the store,she bring it to our grandmother house (in caseof anaphoric relative).

Embedded clauses (Subordinate clause)

x The boy who came is his cousin.


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Complex structures

When he handed in his homework, heforgot to give the teacher the last page

but the teacher marked his work without

noticing the error.


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Therefore it is important for the teacher totrain the student to look first for the core of

the sentence which is the (subject +verb)

They played football

She ate Nasi Lemak

In order to do that, the learner can beasked to

Divide passage into sense group (Verb,adjective, noun, antonym, synonym and etc)

And try to categorize it into a group by

underline, box or highlight the word


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Example:-

They committed random murders in the Los

Angeles area. When a number..they

wanted to protect Charlie, who was always

somewhere else when the butcheries

occurred.

VV

V

V

ADJ N

N

N

N

PRO

PRO


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To gain students understanding on

textual cohesion are by the use of;

Referencing Linking words


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It covers all the devices that permit

lexical relationship within a text.

Anaphora : Element previously mentioned Cataphora : one to be mentioned below

Synonymy

Hyponymy

comparison


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Barbara couldn't take it any more. Her

upstairs neighbor was blasting his stereo

again. She had asked him twice alreadyto turn the volume down.

Herand she refer to Barbara.


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If you want them, there are cookies in

the kitchen.

Them is referring to the cookies


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Text is not made up of

independent clauses or sentences

BUT

it is a web of related ideas that

announced, introduced throughout thepassage with the help references.


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When student fails to understand some

words in a passage, he will not

understand some ideas of the text.


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The yardman comes every two weeks.

He drives a gray pickup truck. The truck is

a Ford. It is about 15 years old, but it runswell. It doesn't burn oil, and it gets

decent gas mileage. The yardman's

name is Byron. In the back of his truck

are a lawn mower, a leaf blower, a rake,and a shovel


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Students that do not understand inter- or

intra sentential connectors, he will fail torecognize the communicative value of

the passage since those words arefunction as Signals indicating the

function of what follows.


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I always get up at seven o'clock. Then I

eat breakfast. I usually eat bread and

drink a glass of milk. Then I feed the cat. Ialways eat lunch at eleven forty five. At

lunch time I usually drink coke and eat a

bowl of rice. I usually have dinner at six

o'clock in the evening. Later,I do myhomework and go to bed. I often go to

bed at nine o'clock.


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"See," Martin pointed out to Jane,"if you

want to use the cart, you can just rent

one for the whole day from the rack."

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