Lexical and syntactic focus
While reading silently, students come across new grammatical and structural units
and students have the opportunity to pick out linguistic or syntactic problems that
cause them comprehension difficulties (e.g. long sentences, new structures or
expressions typical of a particular writer’s style). Teachers then ask students to raise
their difficulties and try to interpret them according to the context. This can be done
either individually or in pairs. Then, these problems are pooled and collected together.
Teachers can ask students to discuss these listed problems in pairs or in a small group