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Reading with a Purpose: Communicative Reading Tasks for the Foreign Language Classroom
Abstract
ABSTRACT Recent reading research has shown that reading comprehension is a function of both text‐ and reader‐based factors. This paper focuses on the reader‐based factor of purpose, beginning with a review of research which demonstrates that reading texts with a particular purpose or perspective facilitates comprehension and increases reader interest. The paper suggests approaches to the teaching of texts that provide learners with purpose, including student‐generated text collections, communicative tasks with reading components, and prereading tasks for readings in literature or civilization. Finally, the paper argues that the concept of purpose provides a useful organizing principle for the coordination of reading instruction across the foreign language curriculum.
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“Recent reading research points to the benefits of working with texts for the purpose of drawing students' attention to formal features of written language as well (Long & Crookes, 1992).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Knutson, E. M.
- Affiliations
- United States Naval Academy (US)
- Corresponding author
- Knutson, Elizabeth M.
- Venue
- Foreign Language Annals
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 1997-03
- Volume
- 30
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 49-57
- ISSN
- 0015-718X (ISSN-L)
- 1944-9720
- OpenAlex
- W2089491324
- Cited by
- 46
- References
- 2
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 2 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 1 · 2016: 2 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 4
- FWCI
- 11.60
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Foreign Language Annals (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Second Language Acquisition and Learning
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Reading and Literacy Development
- Keywords
- reading purposes, reading comprehension, foreign language reading instruction, curriculum coordination
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