Teaching Reading of Texts for Intermediate Level English Students

Abstract

This thesis concerns teaching reading of English authentic and non-authentic texts for Intermediate level English students. It starts with theoretical part, which deals with factors of the process of teaching reading like reading comprehension, reading techniques in a foreign language or selecting texts suitable for teaching reading and differences between the authentic and non-authentic texts. The theoretical part is closed by chapter concerning methodological model of teaching reading lesson serving as basis for model of teaching reading experiment in the practical part. The practical part focuses on practical research on teaching reading in the form of experiment that took place in a few English lessons in a high school. It starts with description of the research problem and aims, the research background and used methods. The research consists of several parts - the survey questionnaire, the experiment itself - six English reading lessons and another type of questionnaires distributed among the students after each lesson to collect the information about the students' opinions on the lesson.