Transcript An Alternative Approach to Materials for teaching - Nam

An Alternative
Approach to
Materials for
teaching Reading.
Questions
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How can materials writers help L2 learners to tackle
language problems in reading materials?
How can materials writers help L2 learners to have
higher self-esteem and start enjoying reading
fluently?
Principle 1: Engaging Affect should be
the prime concern of reading materials.
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Interesting topics
Problems in L2 for finding cognitively and
linguistically balanced texts for the readers.
Principle 2: Listening to a Text before
reading it helps decrease linguistic
demands and encourages learners to
focus on meaning.
Principle 3: Reading comprehension
Means Achieving Multidimensional
Mental Representation in the Reader’s
Mind
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Experienced images
Imagined the environment and had vague sensations (e.g.
smell, dust, sound)
Felt some sort of emotion
Remembered some personal experience from your past
Thought about what you have read, heard, seen about
refugees in Africa
Evaluated the skills of the poet.
Principle 4: Materials should help
learners experience the text first
before they draw their attention to its
language
Solutions
Pre-, and during
comprehension check up activities are needed
Interpretations,
than comprehension. (Masuhara, 1998, neuroscience
and cognitive psychology)
The language based approach to reading
pedagogy seems to hypothesize an
Equation
between
General syntactic ability outside a
discourse context (grammar test) and the
ability to disambiguate syntactical
patterns during reading
Skill vs Strategies (CLT, 1970)
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Skill: Acquired ability unconsciously
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Strategy: conscious procedure
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1차시- 식물, 동물, 사물의 감정 예시
I want to sit on the bench
because I always stand up.
I feel exhausted because I
have to change clothes.
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1차시- 식물, 동물, 사물의 감정 학생작품 1
I am exhausted because I should
always look beautiful.
I am sad because I will be
soon withered.
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1차시- 식물, 동물, 사물의 감정 학생작품 2
I feel uneasy because if new
phones come out, people will
not buy me.
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2차시- 관계대명사 Who 학습
사물을 의인화 한 시 쓰기
?
Who likes butterflies and bees.
Who dislikes scissors.
Who needs attention.
Who gives happiness.
Who wants to see snow.
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2차시- 사물을 의인화 한 시 쓰기 Pattern 제공
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Who likes 명사 / to 동사
Who dislikes 명사 / to 동사
Who needs 명사 / to 동사
Who gives 명사
Who wants to see 명사
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2차시- 사물을 의인화 한 시 쓰기 학생작품 1
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2차시- 사물을 의인화 한 시 쓰기 학생작품 2
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3차시- 좋아하는 음악 장르와 가수 묻는 표현 학
습
사물이 좋아하는 음악 유추하기
Interviewer: Will you introduce yourself?
63 Building: Hello, my name is 63 building. I am the tallest building in Korea.
Interviewer: Wow, you are wonderful. You are very happy, aren’t you?
63 Building: Not, really. I am sad at night when there are no people.
Interviewer: What do you do when you feel lonely at night?
63 building: I usually listen to music. Music is my friend at night.
Interviewer: What’s your favorite kind of music?
63 Building: I like dance music because it makes me happy.
Interviewer: Who are your favorite singers?
63 Building: My favorite group is Girl’s Generation.
• 3차시- 사물이 좋아하는 음악 유추하기 학생 예문 1
• 3차시- 사물이 좋아하는 음악 유추하기 학생 예문 2
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Use of Schema
Homework
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Select one unit from a reading book, analyse it on
the basis of approaches in the chapter 20 and
modify the chapter reflecting suggestions.
Try to do this homework reflecting your own
material.
Read according to the reading lists