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Academic reading skill is the key to the new world of information and technology. The ultimate goal of academic reading is to learn technical knowledge. The tendency of focusing on communicative skills has led to deterioration of the academic reading skill. English educators have not paid much attention to teaching academic reading because they do not play a direct role in achieving the ultimate goal.
Assuming that effective academic reading takes place after the reader reaches the threshold level, this article suggests that teaching academic reading should start with teaching how to analyze long and complicated sentences into clauses, using “INFL”. The analysis of sentences into clauses is taught in warming-up session. To perform the instruction of sentence analysis in a meaningful context, all the examples should be selected from the textbook. The instruction is followed by problem-solving exercises in small groups and interactive feedback.