PASAA
Publication Date
1979-01-01
Abstract
In recent years there has been a great deal of discussion in Thailand of the English language needs of tertiary level students. One constantly recurring theme is that our students need the language as part of the process of gaining access to, the knowledge of their specialist subjects, much of which is only available in academic textbooks and articles written in English. Thus it is widely agreed that English programmes at the tertiary level should lay particular stress on developing the students' ability to read relevant academic texts written in English. There is, however, no one accepted, uniform approach to developing this ability: different institutions in Thailand, as we are discovering during this conference, have adopted different approaches and strategies1. This is as it should be; the "right" approach for each institution will and should vary to a greater or lesser extent to accommodate different circumstances, practical constraints, and student needs and expectations. In this paper I shall describe the approach we have adopted at Chulalongkorn University for the first-year Foundation English Reading Course, and I shall show how we have tried to build the underlying principles of our approach into the reading materials that we are at present preparing for the first-semester course. But first I shall briefly consider some of the important practical considerations which have influenced the way we have looked at the problem.
DOI
10.58837/CHULA.PASAA.9.1.6
First Page
44
Last Page
55
Recommended Citation
Frankel, M.A.
(1979)
"A Multi-Dimensional Approach to Reading Materials,"
PASAA: Vol. 9:
Iss.
1, Article 8.
DOI: 10.58837/CHULA.PASAA.9.1.6
Available at:
https://digital.car.chula.ac.th/pasaa/vol9/iss1/8