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How to READ a foreign language assignment:
- Check to see if there are questions or conversational topics at the
end of the assignment. If so, read these carefully, for they usually give
clues to the main ideas in the passage.
- Read the foreign language
- attempting to discover ideas rather than translate words.
- when you come to a word that you don't know put a dot in the margin
of the line in which it occurs and keep reading, trying to infer the meaning
of the word from the context of the passage.
- keep reading until it becomes obvious that the thought is not coming
across to you.
- Look up the words you did not know, placing a dot beside the word in
the vocabulary, indicating that you have had to refer to it.
- Go back to the reading and start again at the point where you started
to look up the words. Now see if the thought does not come to you. If so,
again keep reading until you can go no further.
- In this manner continue to the end of the passage.
- Refer again to the questions so that in re-reading you will be sure
to find answers.
- Be sure to reread the same manner, inferring meanings from context
and checking vocabulary only when absolutely necessary.
- Once you can read the whole passage through for ideas, read it aloud
being careful to give the word their correct pronunciation. (This is done
only if you will be required to read aloud in class.)
- Answer the questions using full sentences and foreign language expressions
found in the reading.
- Any words in the vocabulary that have more than two dots beside them
should be added to your card file of difficult words and studied among
with other vocabulary cards.
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