Schemas - Strategies pour la Lecture (Paperback)

SchTmas is a strategies-oriented reader. Its purpose is to help the beginning language learner become a strategic reader. Reading is practiced in the context of teaching strategies. Such reading strategies include skimming for the main ideas, scanning for specific information, guessing words from context, recognizing text organization and function, using a dictionary efficiently, and recognizing temporal and personal references. The strategies in this book go from concrete to abstract.