English Language Teaching

READING SKILL                 Reading helps one to keep oneself abreast of the ever increasing knowledge. Francis Bacon says ‘Reading make a full man’. It develops self-confidence in the learner. A person who has acquired the skill of reading is complete in learning the specific language. After acquiring the former two skills, viz., listening and speaking, the learner moves to mastering the reading skill. So, it is the foundation laid by the former two skills which helps a person to read properly.           Reading involves recognition of sounds and written symbols .  Reading is a reaction to the graphic symbols, may it be reading aloud or silent reading. Reading aloud with meaningful sense groups, good pronunciation, proper pauses, and modulation of voice can be only understood by the reader and the listener. Reading is often coupled with listening skill and is described as passive or receptive skill.           Reading involves complex skills as that of thinking. It includes l

Cohesion and coherence The sentences in a paragraph are not loosely connected. There is a connection between the sentences. The second sentence might be the result of the first. If we read the third sentence without reading  the first two sentence, we cannot get at the meaning of that sentence. This logical link is one of the addition, or cause and effective relationship. It is not stated explicitely. This logical link is called ‘Coherence’ . A good easy should have cohesion and coherence. Cohesion is of three types. 1. Lexical Cohesion (Topical Cohesion) 2. Grammatical Cohesion (Cohesion) 3. Logical Cohesion (Coherence) Lexical cohesion/Topical cohesion                 The words used in an essay are essentially connected to the Topic. For (eg) the words like City, Town, Roads, Buildings, & Collectorate, College, University, Institutions-Public and Private, Clock Tower, Temple, Hotels, Treasury, Corporation, Market, Shops, Textile shops, Grocery Shop, Super