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  • Essay / Development of reading skills - 590

    Reading comprehension skill includes different types of reading related to reading styles. The ability to use these skills saves a lot of time and helps in understanding the meaning of the text. Reading skills can be categorized into four important skills which are intensive reading, extensive reading, scanning and skimming which have an important and substantial role in facilitating the reading activity. Extensive reading involves practicing reading in class under the supervision of a tutor and focusing on details in order to understand the text appropriately. Brown (1994) asserted that a reader must analyze the text by looking for grammatical structures. and other details in order to construct a correct meaning of the text. Moreover, learners may find reading of such type complex, but the instructor can help and develop readers' reading skills by selecting a text written in a language. which can be adapted to the level of the reader so reading avidly as well as reading comprehension can be ...