Getting students interested in reading is often a difficult aspect of English teaching, especially if the texts are not particularly exciting. Students have usually developed a range of reading skills in their first language which they tend not to transfer into English. Thus they can get bogged down with trying to understand every word and spend a long time on unnecessary parts, causing them to lose interest and fail to digest the key parts.
Jenny Miller
Jenny Miller has been embroiled in education for most of her life. She has taught students and trained teachers in a variety of countries.
She worked at the British Council in Colombia and Istanbul for seven years as a teacher and trainer. She has been based in Istanbul since 2000. Nowadays she works as a freelance teacher trainer.
Her interests include: teacher education, young learners, very young learners, assessment, CELTA (the Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults), DELTA ( the Diploma in English Language Teaching to Adults) and other Cambridge training courses.