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A Zoom Lens Model for Teaching English Reading

The purpose of this study is to review the three kinds of bottom-up, top-down and interactive models of reading and suggest an alternative approach to teaching reading called ‘a zoom lens model.’ Over the past two decades, it has been continued to emphasize listening and speaking rather than reading and writing of the English skills. Recently, however, our society requires even stronger literacy abilities due to the age of information technology growth. In the vein of this trend, we need to explore new approaches of reading and apply them to a reading world. Although the existing three models of reading have served useful purposes for reading comprehension, there are some limitations. In particular, the interactive models combining bottom-up and top-down models provide neither a simple, exact model, nor how to teach to practitioners in practice. The zoom lens model, on the other hand, has several benefits. First, it considers learning environments and levels of English learners. Second, its focus is exclusively on learners, not teachers. Third, it can provide how to teach English reading for teachers. Finally, it can be applied to other language skills; writing, listening, and speaking including pronunciation.