reading and listening lesson musts... and why they're maybes
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Reading and Listening Lesson Musts... and why they're maybes
Chris Ożóg, IH Dubai
Reading and Listening LessonsReading and Listening Lessons
Reading and Listening LessonsReceptive skills workCan focus on mirco-skills or subskillsCan focus on strategiesCoursebooks use graded textsLend themselves to authentic texts Tend to have a similar procedural template / lesson
shapeTeacher silenceOften seen as easy lessons for the teacherStudents don’t always perceive value (wasted time?)
Subskills
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Subskills
PredictionGist / skimmingSpecific information / scanningDetailed comprehensionDeducing lexical meaningInferring meaning/attitudeUnderstanding textual organisationNote-takingSummarising
Top-down or Bottom-up Processes?
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Bottom-Up Processing
•Recognising letters/words•Focus on individual words•Working out syntax
Top-Down Processing
•Use world knowledge•Use experience•Different text style
Images from: Nuttall, Christine. (2005) Teaching Reading Skills. MacMillan: 16 -17
The Musts...
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Over the next few slides, we'll
Examine 5 things we must do in receptive skills lessons
Discuss these
Daydream
Must 1: Always do Gist
Photo courtesy of me the other night in Edinburgh
Must 1: Always do Gist
Photo courtesy of me the other night in Edinburgh
Must 2: Get the questions right first time!
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Must 2: Get the questions right first time!
Find out why the questions were wrong!
Here comprehension skills can be developed and are not just tested. Be confident!
•Peer checking•Underline the answer in the text•Highlight key words•Paraphrase text•Identify referencing•Help learners work out unknown lexis•Provide answers and have learners find why
Must 3: Pre-teach Essential Lexis
Blog post
http://eltreflection.wordpress.com/2013/08/30/what-is-the-point-in-pre-teaching/
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1. Why pre-teach?
2. What pre-teach?
3. How many pre-teach?
4. When pre-teach?
Must 4: Only Play the Tape Twice
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Question!
How many times should you play a recording?
Answer?
As many times as you need to, within reason, and not always the whole recording. Use the tape-script.
Must 5: Put the Text away – Get on with Something Else
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You’ve finished the reading work, time to put the text away and do something else?
• Guided Discovery• Learn Lexis• Highlight textual features• Identify referencing• Summarise• Find adjectives• Write Qs for others• Etc.
Summing Up
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Reading and Listening Lesson Musts... and why they're maybes Chris Ożóg, IH Dubai
E-mail: chris@ihdubai.comTwitter: @chrisozogBlog: eltreflection.wordpress.com
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