Skimming and Scanning

This Skimming and Scanning Apps is created to help readers to improve their reading skills and enhance reading comprehension. Reading is one of the four necessary language skills needed in learning English as a second language. Skimming and scanning are reading strategies used with different purposes. Reader needs to determine their reading purposes then only they will know which skills to use to make reading meaningful.

Skimming is looking for general or main ideas and reader only concentrates on the purpose of reading. Hence, reader’s understanding is reduced because they do not read everything. This however will not hamper their reading comprehension since they already understood the main ideas of the reading material. Skimming is done while reading and let reader look for details in addition to the main ideas. Skimming works for both fiction and non-fictional materials.

Scanning on the other hand, is used when reader needs to look for specific information without having to read everything. For example, reader scan for movies list, or bus schedule or class timetable. The essential part in scanning is that reader needs to be able to grasp the content and know the structure of the materials they scan. Once they have established that, then it will be easier for the reader to locate the specific information needed. By knowing these strategies, it helps readers to be more effective and flexible.

This application is developed to help educators, parents, and most importantly; the learners to engage in an interactive learning. This application provides different materials to allow users to use it according to their pace and level. The materials are categorized into three levels namely; easy, medium and difficult. With its colourful and stimulating interface, the developers hoped to get users attention to use this application. It is hoped that users can get the most out of this application with its easy to use interface and features in addition to the variety of materials provided.

创建此略读和扫描应用程序，以帮助读者提高他们的阅读能力和提高阅读理解。阅读是学习英语作为第二语言所需要的四个必要的语言技能之一。略读和扫描阅读不同的目的而使用的策略。读者需要确定自己的阅读目的，那么只有他们才知道要使用的技能，使阅读有意义的。

略读正在寻找一般或主要观点和读者仅专注于阅读的目的。因此，因为他们不看什么读者的理解降低。然而，这不会妨碍他们的阅读理解，因为他们已经理解阅读材料的主要思想。而阅读，让读者寻找除主要思路细节略读完成。略读小说和非虚构作品的材料。

在另一方面扫描，当读者需要寻找特定信息，而不必去详细阅读使用。例如，阅读器扫描的电影列表，或公交站牌或类时间表。在扫描的重要组成部分是，读者需要能够掌握的内容，知道他们扫描材料的​​结构。一旦他们已经建立了，那么这将是更容易为读者找到所需的特定信息。通过了解这些策略，它可以帮助读者更有效，更灵活。

此应用程序开发，以帮助教育工作者，家长，以及最重要的;学习者参与交互学习。此应用程序提供不同的材料，以允许用户根据自己的节奏和水平使用它。材料分为三个层次，即;简单，中等和困难。凭借其丰富多彩，刺激的接口，开发者希望得到用户注意使用此应用程序。我们希望用户可以充分利用该应用程序与它的易于使用的界面和功能，除了各种提供的材料。