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Developing top-down & bottom-up reading skills

This highly practical workshop presents ten ways to use top-down and bottom-up reading strategies with any text to help your learners become better readers.

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What you will learn

Reading in English can be a tough skill for learners to master. Whilst many might choose to focus on speaking and listening instead, any learner taking a formal qualification in English needs to be able to read confidently to achieve success. This is no mean feat, especially as much of our course material tends to assess reading rather than teach it, whilst our learners seem less and less interested in reading outside of class. But there is hope.

This highly practical workshop takes sound pedagogical theory and matches it with tried and tested techniques that will help your learners become more confident and independent readers. We will explore what a traditional model to teaching reading often looks like and why it might not be effective. We will then look at how we read a text, and why the combination of top-down and bottom-up processes are essential to focus on in our classes. Using this as a basis, I’ll show you ten short activities you can use with virtually any text to help learners develop those processes.

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Developing top-down & bottom-up reading skills

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About the trainer

Ben Crompton – ELT Trainer & Director of Studies Amanda’s School

Ben Crompton’s educational journey commenced in 2007 and fully ignited after obtaining his CELTA certification in 2011. Today, as the Director of Studies at Amanda’s School in Spain, his dedication bears fruit as former students often return with heartfelt expressions of gratitude. Renowned for workshops on pronunciation and sustainable teaching practices, Ben is a versatile professional constantly evolving as a trainer, manager, teacher, and writer. His unwavering commitment is to craft memorable learning experiences, making a lasting impact on his students’ lives.

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