03-Global Understanding

Strategies for Global Understanding
• Read with a purpose in mind • Think about what I know to help me understand what I read (pre-
information) • Overall view of the text to see what it’s about before reading • Decide whether the content of the text fits the reading purpose • Review the text first by noting characteristics including length and
features • Critically analyze and evaluate the information presented in the text • Check understanding when coming across new information • Guess what the content of the text is about when reading • Check to see if guesses about the text are correct
Coll e ge En gli sh fo r Academic Reading
Global Understanding
Contents
• Definition • Global Understanding Strategies • Activities
Definition
• Global understanding, or global comprehension means understanding the general meaning of what you are listening to or reading. It can be compared to selective comprehension, which means understanding specific information in the text, and detailed comprehension, which means understanding everything.
Activities
• Global understanding will be tested on almost every kind of English proficiency test.
• In order to answer Question 1 and 10 in the following passages, you need to understand e authors’ argument globally.
• From these examples, we can see global understanding is a very important reading strategy for us to acquire.
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organization • When reading decide what to read closely and what to ignore.
Strategies for Global Understanding
• Use tables, figures, and pictures in the text to increase understanding • Use context clues to help better understand the reading • Use typographical features like bold face and italics to identify key