Teaching Reading in English as a Foreign Language

Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject English - Pedagogy, Didactics, Literature Studies, grade: 2,0, University of Cologne, course: Introduction to English Language Teaching, language: English, comment: In this globalised world, having good reading skills in English is becoming more and more important day by day. Wherever you look, no matter on which spot of the world, you will find descriptions and indications in English.In this termpaper I am going to emphasise this necessity and illustrate the reading process from its early beginnings and point out its purposes. Furthermore I will give advice to English teachers, on how they can maximise their teaching effectiveness on a basis of linguistic findings, abstract: In this globalised world, having good reading skills in English is becoming more and more important day by day. Wherever you look, no matter on which spot of the world, you will find descriptions and indications in English.In this termpaper I am going to emphasise this necessity and illustrate the reading process from its early beginnings and point out its purposes. Furthermore I will give advice to English teachers, on how they can maximise their teaching effectiveness on a basis of linguistic findings