Abstract

This article reveals the using narrow reading for developing reading skills, tackling as well paramount aspects related to the nature of reading and the factors affecting reading comprehension. This paper reveals the manual proposed for the developmentof reading skills in the medical profession, describing in details the teaching methodology and the rationale underlying the design and implementation of the referred manual; the selection of the reading texts, of the reading skills and of the tasks to develop such skills and subskills; the explanation of how such reading subskills, texts and tasks overlap in terms of logical sequence; and the provision of teaching guidelines in the framework of the teaching approach opted for.