To state what activities the teacher performs for students to understand the lesson well.

1. teaching reading

2. Teach Reading in Tieng Anh 10 Do Tuan Minh English Department College of Foreign Languages Vietnam National University, Hanoi

3. Your Beliefs about Teaching Reading Students should only read good literature in English. Comics and newspapers are bad for them in school. 2 It is important to pre-teach all new vocabulary before students read the text. 1 Don’t know Dis-agree Agree Statements

4. Your Beliefs about Teaching Reading Students need to read for a purpose, not to read so that they can just answer multiple choice questions. 4 My students don’t have the opportunity to read outside school so it is my responsibility to choose suitable texts for them in school. 3 Don’t know Dis-agree Agree Statements

5. Your Beliefs about Teaching Reading Using graded comprehension questions is the only real way of checking that students have understood the text. 6 I don’t think students learn a lot from reading things like timetables, indexes, recipes, directories. 5 Don’t know Dis-agree Agree Statements

6. Your Beliefs about Teaching Reading English newspapers are too difficult for my students. Students should concentrate on reading simplified texts from their textbooks 8 The teacher’s job is to help students learn to read by themselves. S/he cannot do the reading for them. 7 Don’t know Dis-agree Agree Statements

7. Your Beliefs about Teaching Reading The real purpose of reading is for students to learn more about grammar and how the written language is constructed 10 If I don’t translate the text for my students they don’t understand it. 11 Getting students to read aloud is a useful way of making them understand what they are reading 9 Don’t know Dis-agree Agree Statements

8. Your Beliefs about Teaching Reading If I get my students to think about the topic before they start reading, and try to predict what the text is about , they find the text easier to understand. 13 Students don’t need to be aware of the reading sub-skills like 'skimming' and 'scanning' - that’s information only the teacher needs to know. 12 Don’t know Dis-agree Agree Statements