An Overview Of Reading Models In Language Teaching

The present paper describes the different reading models that have influenced reading instruction throughout the history of the research into the nature of the reading process. It reviews the most influential reading theories and puts forward the advantages and drawbacks of each model. Between the bottom-up view and the top-down one, the interactive model of reading appears to be the one that best translates what happens in the mind of a reader while he processes a text using his linguistic knowledge along with his metacognitive strategies to decode the writer’s encoded meaning.