some sample questions

Dear students,
the following are some examples of questions for you to have an idea of what I expect. Best wishes, joy in your minds and hearts, Sol.

*Define “reading” including these notions in your definition: social practice, construction, citizenship, genres, knowledge, technology.
*In the context of foreign language learning, do you consider that recognizing morphology and syntax is a level of reading comprehension? Explain your answer.
*Is reading a matter of cultural awareness? Think of reading in your mother tongue in comparison to reading in a foreign language.
*Establish at least two differences between genres and rhetorical mechanisms.
*Explain the following analogy: Genres stand for diversity as rhetorical modes stand for unity.
*According to Luis Fernando Agudelo (2010, edited by professor Colmenares), “Reading is more than following some words orally or mentally. The process of reading involves the reader in a complex activity in which she must try to identify what the author wants to say. The author uses a series of resources (morphological, syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, etc) with a purpose, she uses these resources to convey her intentions of persuading or dissuading her reader about an idea or a point of view. What the reader must do is to identify those purposes, decoding the text as a unity.” Do you agree with this statement? Explain your answer.