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Hi. I'm Claudia. I believe that reading comprehension skill is fundamental to students' overall academic success and lifelong learning. I focus on fostering a deep understanding of texts, encouraging students to think critically, and helping them make connections between what they read and their own experiences.

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Hello teacher and classmates . I am Mirian Jumbo. After finishing the collegue. I have worked as a teacher in a secundary for teenagers and adults that for any reason does not finish their studies. Firstly was a challenge with the poplulation and coworkers but finally I feel able to face this problematic. The principal of my school was the person who helps me to improve my teaching skills. With the time I have adquired knowledge and experience that I share with my students. I feel comfortable in my job, I try to create a ggod environment with my students and parteners that I feel proud when a student gets a goal in his or her life but I am sure thet to be a teacher is the best choise of my life and we never finish our learning

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Hi, I started learning English many years ago at school then I start working with foreigner people, although they were from other country where doesn't speak english they use english to comunicate with Us. That was my motivation to continue improving my english currently I'm working as a teacher using all tools that I can have in my way.

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Hi! I'm an English with over a year of experience and I have encountered many difficulties when teaching reading. At first, I used to follow the coursebook activities going from general to specific. However, my students didn't show any kind of interest in reading. Later on, I started using different reading activities to have my students engage when reading. For example, I started using the jigsaw reading technique in which texts are divided and given to students in different groups. These strategies seemed to work as it increased cooperation and speaking. Likewise, it improves students' critical thinking skills. Over this time, I have tried many reading techniques to raise students' motivation when reading. I suggest you all use a variety of techniques when teaching receptive skills that might seem boring, but they can be engaging.

Randy Ortiz

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Firstable I didn't like the english language when I was a kid because I thought that It was so difficult to learn other language for me, but my mother always said me that I have to learn other language, and I was in an english course that It was really interesting the methodology was innovated for me. There I acquire the linstening and reading skills by playing with new words, for that reason in my planning I include this kind of metholody, as a result my students try to read and analyze the texts in classess, I had always beleive that If we have critical learners we can improve with other skills too.

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I think that over time, as teacher I have developed effective strategies to support student progress. For instance, when I introduce students to new topics or readings containing unfamiliar words, I employ various methods to facilitate their understanding. One approach involves creating a visual representation, such as a graph, that highlights our discussion's title or main theme. Additionally, I utilize word cards and encourage students to construct graphic vocabulary aids. As they familiarize themselves with these tools, they engage in activities where they exchange and compile their own personalized vocabulary dictionaries. This collaborative process not only enhances their ability to comprehend new words but also improves their retention of the material.

By: Lorena Torres Delgado

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I'm a person who likes reading, even in Spanish or English.

I remember, when I was a student I enjoy reading books or articles, I think the institution choose a right ones according our ages, all of then was interesting, and during the class the teachers ask us something about the reading activity or make a summarize.

Another way to me, for a myself practicing reading and listening is with song lyrics, I practice or read with subtitles and later without. So I think that could be a good idea to teach.

I'm not a english teacher, so, thats my experience like a student, but I considerer that is important to read anything to practice probably a gossip about international entertainment could help too. Johanna García

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Hi, I am Galito Ruiz. When I want my students to read, I´ve been successful because I make them bring what they want to read, what they are interested in,for instance,I have some students that like much D.C.comics, and they read to understand this series.

How to teach reading in my personal opinion is making read waht they want, when they do this, after that, they can create a summary of what they read, and can explain to me something about the reading.

Something that affects reading is when we as teachers,bring some material that could be boring to them.

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When I teach activities for reading comprehension I introduce the text with the unknown words for the students, then they recognize the learned words for understanding the ideas, because if they don't know the vocabulary it's very difficult undestanding the words, sentences or some text. In general, they like to read short stories.

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I have been teaching reading and comprehension my whole life. The main problem I have faced is that in Latin-America, people are not familiar with reading; I mean it is not a common or frequent activity. People get bored when reading. But I strongly believe that if we select readings related to students' culture, we'll probably succeed on teaching reading-comprehension. That idea could be related to the fourth factor that affects reading processes: interest and motivation, mentioned by Abbas and Narjes (2016). That is why, at my university, I designed a Reading Vinculación Project (starting in September 2024) to help students from all educational levels to better their reding-comprehension skills. I hope to have good results in 3 years.

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By Ada Rodríguez

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I am not a professor , but when I studied English I have a good experience in reading skills because must of my professors teaches us with the topics we liked and reading the magazines. When I started to work I must to be close with EFL due I must to learn occupational reading and some terms were different to me , some technical words in my laboral environment .

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Hello! I am Johnny Terán, I agree with Deniss (2008), that interest and motivation had a big factor in comprehension with my Ss as ELL, so I gave them short texts about topics that they like and felt interested in, like reading for pleasure, trying with lower anxiety, the background before the reading was a good help for them because they know something about these topics or feel interested. In addition, the text structure improvement helped them organize the ideas with graphic organizers and signal words/phrases.