EXTENSIVE READING IN ELEMENTTARY VIETNAMESE LEARNING PROGRAMS AND TEXTS

Abstract

Teaching reading comprehension is one of the types of education that many countries around the world are interested in today with the aim of comprehensive human development with basic skills of reading, writing, speaking and listening indispensable in life. Extensive reading is a compulsory content in the reading skills training of the general education program in 2018, especially for elementary school students. The inclusion of this teaching content not only contributes to improving knowledge and skills, developing educational thinking but also training personality and self-development for learners. On the basis of a combination of methods theoretical and practical research, assessment methods; the article focuses on analyzing the content of extended reading in the primary Vietnamese curriculum and textbooks, the characteristics of extended reading activities classes as well as designing reading forms for elementary students to contribute section clarifying the educational orientation of the issue of expanded reading instruction in Vietnamese schools in the coming time.