Argues that reading should be a significant portion of the foreign language student's experience but that, in order for the reading to be an occasion for comprehensible input, the text must be authentic, meaningful to students, and followed by questions which encourage reading for meaning. Gives examples of such questions. (SED)

An analytical approach for teaching foreign language reading to students includes: identifying and discussing the components of reading (communication, notional area, anticipation and retrospection, text, coherence, cohesion, information), contriving short problem-solving exercises, and systematically training pupils in the various operations at…

The International School of Geneva was founded in Switzerland more than 75 years ago to serve the needs of diplomatic families. Today it is a large, complex academic organization, with three campuses educating more than 3,400 children from ages 3 to 18, representing 110 nationalities and speaking about 80 mother tongues. The school offers…