Incorporating Semiotic Communication into EFL Reading Classes

Abstract

The aim of this article is to apply the Semiotic Approach to reading literary texts in EFL classes and to demonstrate how to implement this approach in a classroom setting. This approach is a unified comprehensive approach based on three reading activities: reading within the text for the ‘sense’, reading upon the text for the ‘value’ and reading against the text for the ‘critique’. As the approach is developed in three coherent stages, it can be implemented in line with reading classes made up of pre-reading, whilereading and post-reading activities to make the lessons as learner-centred as possible.. Both (1) how to do semiotic reading, and (2) how to incorporate it into EFL reading classes will be demonstrated.