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Introduction

The competences of reading are point of departure for other skills and competences like a writing, development of thinking, the ability to speak, etc. For that reason is important perform reading work with learners for the other skills are easier to acquire. They can ease speaking with a public, have a good knowledge for a culture, society and history is very important for the learners. They can work with other areas if they have good habits of reading in this case the learning of the second languages. We like teachers need promote the critical positions of the learners front a book and do a discussion with the teacher. For that reason we like teachers have to good teachers for do good learners and good readers.

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The Reading abilities that the learners must have make a good reading of the texts, rewrite the texts in their own words and finally they are able to speak about the text. When the learners have this basic abilities have been accomplished the learners can make other kind of reading and writing strategies like a paraphrasing texts, conclude what is the content of the text by the title? And also they can produce their own texts. This activist promotes learning and development of the first language and the second language. I chose an investigation of María Fernández Agüero and Susana Montero Méndez “reading in the second language: analysis of the effectiveness of previous contextualization and methodological implications”.

“This article presents an experiment carried out with ninety students of English as a second language in order to measure the impact of contextualizing through the title as a methodological strategy prior to reading in the comprehension of authentic text in second languages. Firstly, we revise the existing literature and, in particular, the Schema Theory, which highlights the effectiveness of such strategy. Then, after a detailed description of the characteristics and design of the experiment, we present the results obtained; these corroborate the existence of a significant improvement in the comprehension of the text when the original title is present, thus proving that the title activates the squemata  necessary for comprehension. Translating the title into Spanish dose not lead to a significant increase in comprehension, though. Finally, we draw conclusions, consider the possible methodological implications and suggest possible further research.”

Fernández M., Montero S(2004) page 113 

In this process of learning the second languages are important have a strategies or resources for do a good reading and comprehension of the text that they reading. But it is necessary to recognize that some learners have different type of strategies for read in the first languages and other for read in a second language. Few learners have a relation between strategies in the first and second languages, creating a balanced learning. The most of the problems that have learners in the reading of the second language is linguistic character and for this problem they have a blockage in their learning. But they isn’t know that it problem have a relation with empty in the linguistic of the first languages. For this reason the strategies for learning the second language need and important relation without the strategies of the first languages have a bridge in these knowledge’s. 

Moreover the text has a scheme of reading in second language. This talk about the previous positions that have the reader of the text, this situation is possible in the first and second language. The reader in a first plan wants find with known features and unknown features in the text. That help to construct the new knowledge and this can be the principal idea of the reading a text, produce new knowledge of the known and unknown. Also this text talks about the different between the comprehensions that the reads do of the text.  This can’t be qualified as right or wrong because whatever think that have relation and consistency with the text is acceptable. In relation with the second languages is necessary take into account the previous learning of the context, it means know what is the correct way to reading and writing a paragraph in the context of the second languages to have a good comprehension of that.

The next step to develop is the interpretation of the reading. It means, construct the appropriation of the text through the recollection of information create new perspectives about the text. One thinks that help to do the recollection of information is support schemes like a concept map, brainstorming, etc. that help the memory of the reader to do a more complete analysis and without losing any important detail of the text.  When the learner have these schemes he can developed his opinion about the text.

For reading in a second languages is important identify what is the central topic of the text. Next to that the learner can know other specific ideas that speak of different forms of the seam topic. When the learner knows what the central idea he can identify other thinks is like a kind of text that it is: Narrative, informative, expositive, argumentative, etc. understand which the point that the author is want to go. This will allow a cognitive enrichment and vocabulary.

The other chapter of the text speak about “Contextualization as a necessary element in reading: the title” The title is not just a simple label text is placed to call the reader's attention. This in the classroom and also in meetings of friends that like read is possible to build a contextualization of the content of text. Brainstorm that expand the imagination and previous positions front of the soon to read text. A good exercise to do a comprehension of the text is when the learner finishes of reading the text he can do a possible relation between the title and the text. After reading the text which means its title? From this context also raises other questions, for which the author focuses on this historical, cultural, social context? Because the main character is a doctor or a carpenter? This details what is significant about the text?

Conclusion

When we read a text is very important to take into account a large number of details of the same text. like the central theme of the text, the voice that speaks the writer, the historical context of the text, etc.. Readers when reading these texts must create a memorable support for allowing them remember essential details of the read text to create a good understanding of it.

Investigate more is what is read what the readings invite us, whether expository, narrative or argumentative. Find who he is a writer, because I wrote or information related to the central theme of the text, we will see different perspectives on what they read. To read in the second language that is very important because it helps us to understand and expand knowledge and vocabulary which exposes the text, in this case the English language.

Bibliograph

Fernández M., Montero S., 2004 “reading in the second language: analysis of the effectiveness of previous contextualization and methodological implications”. Portal Linguarum N.3 pp 35-44