A big question is: "Do they read texts at home?" What if they don't?
Reading is one of the four marcoskills and has to be developed alongside with the other three to ensure well-ballanced language learning . There are a lot of pre-reading, while-reading and after-reading activities, that make reading in a classroom both interesting and meaningful.
Moreover, reading in class helps students acquire and develop scanning techniques - a very helpful tool in contemporary information-driven society, the tool, which is often overlooked or underdeveloped if not attended to properly during lessons.
Let's not discard classroom reading, let's change the approach.
