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Hello, we're presenting the course Empower Reading, Enhance Your Students' Understanding.

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My name is Aoife Ahern, I work at Universidad Complutense at the School of Education

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in Teacher Education for Language, Second Language Teaching and Literacy.

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My name is Isabel Blecqua, I am a Secondary School Teacher and I am a former Bilingual Coordinator.

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And I'm Rachel Whittaker from the Autonomo Universitat and I've been working for years

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in reading and writing in English as a foreign language and with teachers, teacher education

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too.

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So who is this course interesting for?

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Well first I'd say for people, anybody who's worried that their students can't understand

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what they read when they read a text and can't write a coherent text when they sit down to

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do that yes and if you think reading comprehension is the basis for learning and success at school

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and if you have tried different things that didn't work well at school in that case this course is

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for you tell us what teachers will be able to do by the end of the course well the first thing i'd

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say is you're going to learn how texts make meaning that is how to analyze deconstruct a text

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so that you can make explicit to your pupils how that text makes meaning, understand it and

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write similar texts. You'll be able to design teaching sequences based on a text on reading

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and to assess your pupils' writing. And you can help your students read at different levels of

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comprehension which in fact means that you are teaching critical reading okay

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yes that's all sounds good and what else what else well we have

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evidence that this discourse this pedagogy works all over the world and also we

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think something very important and that is that we are fun okay so we look

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forward to seeing you okay bye