TY - BOOK AU - Nuttal, Christine TI - Teaching reading skills : : in a foreing language T2 - Mac Millan books for Teachers SN - 9781405080057 U1 - 418.0071 21 PY - 2005/// CY - [England] PB - MacMillan, KW - READING KW - lemb KW - ENGLISH LANGUAJE KW - STUDY AND TEACHING KW - FOREIGN SPEAKERS N1 - Contents index; Contents. Part One. Introductory. Chapter 1. What is reading? Chapter 2. Text and discourse. Chapter 3. Approaching reading in the foreign language classroom. Part Two. Reading skills and strategies. Introduction. Chapter 4. Efficient reading. Chapter 5. Word attack skills. Chapter 6. Reading for plain sense. Chapter 7. Understanding discourse. Part Three. Planning and teaching. Introduction. Chapter 8. An extensive reading programme. Chapter 9. Planning reading lessons. Chapter 10. Selecting texts. Chapter 11. Questioning. Chapter 12. Other kinds of reading task. Chapter 13. The testing of reading. Chapter 14. The teacher as reader N2 - Teaching Reading Skills describes how the texts we read are organized to communicate meanings. It examines what is involved in effective reading and suggests ways of helping students to develop into effective readers in a foreign language. It is especially useful for exam and EAP classes and also includes an invaluable chapter on testing reading skills weitten by Charles Alderson ER -