This paper reports on teaching low-intermediate reading in an attempt to foster effective and efficient reading skills, which we think require both top-down and bottom-up process functioning interactively. A new reading material was developed and actually used in the classroom, based on the following ideas: 1) To enable students to do a constant interaction between top-down and bottom-up processing in reading, it is necessary for teachers to control how students read in the classroom, and 2) To facilitate bottom-up processing, it is effective for learners, especially those without a Kanji-background, to strengthen their vocabulary knowledge.
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