By the end of this module you should be able to:

• appreciate the relative importance of language competence and reading ability in the development of L2 reading;
• explain the role of schemas and background knowledge in L2 reading;
• distinguish different reading purposes and ways of reading L2 texts;
• employ certain techniques to improve students' reading speed;
• identify practical ways to help students process unknown words in an L2 text;
• devise exercises to raise students' awareness of how texts are typically organized;
• use a range of tasks to help students understand textual cohesion and coherence at sentence level;
• explain why extensive reading is important in language learning and set up an extensive L2 reading scheme for your department.