Reading: Learning a Second Language

0 INTRODUCTION Reading is one of the most important skills to master a second language. In recent years, people are increasingly interested in the development of the reading process. Reading is considered a receptive language process and learners do not need to create any form of language. In other words, the reader is given a passive role and will only accept inputs such as opinion, new information, pleasure, and try to understand it. There is no format for interacting with text.

Learning to read in the second language especially during adulthood may be different from the process of learning your mother tongue while studying childhood. Some young children learn to read without being taught. This is the case of Truman Capote, Truman Capote is said to have studied and wrote at the age of five. Others will teach themselves to read by comparing the road signs and words and words of the Bible. Novelist Nicholas Delbanco studied books on ships at the age of six and studied themselves by crossing the Atlantic Ocean.

Whether you are studying a second language student or an infant you learn in your native language, you usually record your speech and read aloud through tape recording or live demo. Digital stories provide another way for learners to record their voices and to speak and read at various stages of development and show an increase over time. "Podcast" can be a pure audio digital story without a visual component

The purpose of secondary language learning is usually different from foreign language learning. The second language is necessary to fully participate in the political and economic life of the country. It is usually an official language or one of two or more recognized languages. It may be the language required for education. One of the purposes of learning foreign languages ​​is travel abroad, communication with native speakers, reading foreign language literature and science and technology work. There are some major differences between foreign language teaching and second language education. In second language learning, people can accept input inside and outside the classroom. He or she can use knowledge at any time and children can learn the first language so that you can do a lot of naturalistic exercises.