Teaching reading comprehension skills
At my university my colleagues and I teach French-speaking students in
Psychology and Social Sciences to read English for professional purposes.
These students are not taught to write, speak, or comprehend oral discourse.
In the following section, I shall briefly outline some of the sub-skills
which we attempt to develop with these students, bearing in mind that ‘a
learner will not become a proficient reader simply by attending a reading
course or working through a reading textbook’ (Williams 1986:44).