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Class 8: Teaching Reading and Listening Comprehension – Goals for Today:

Class 8: Teaching Reading and Listening Comprehension – Goals for Today:. Identify rationale and goals for teaching reading and listening skills Know different types of activities for teaching reading and listening comprehension Be able to design activities.

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Class 8: Teaching Reading and Listening Comprehension – Goals for Today:

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  1. Class 8: Teaching Reading and Listening Comprehension – Goals for Today: • Identify rationale and goals for teaching reading and listening skills • Know different types of activities for teaching reading and listening comprehension • Be able to design activities Teaching Listening and Reading

  2. Rationale for Teaching Reading Comprehension: • Comprehensible input • Vehicle for cultural information • Opportunity for interaction • Functional skill Teaching Listening and Reading

  3. Rationale for Teaching Listening Comprehension • Helps comprehension-based approaches, allows for “silent” period • Trains receptive skills • Helps functional approaches with emphasis on oral communication • Promotes communicative skill development • Provides venue for use of authentic materials Teaching Listening and Reading

  4. Reading for different purposes • Scanning • Finding main ideas and a few supporting details • Getting all the details Teaching Listening and Reading

  5. Listening Comprehension -- What Does the Listener Need to Do? • Determine the type of interaction or speech event (such as conversation, lecture, discussion or debate) • Recall scripts (or schemata) relevant to the situation • Making inferences about the goals of the speaker • Determining the meaning of the utterance • Remember and act upon the information Teaching Listening and Reading

  6. Teacher Talk • Simplified code • Slower more careful articulation • Use of known vocabulary and cognates • Can include personal anecdotes (authentic!) Teaching Listening and Reading

  7. Four ways to read a text: • Skimming • Scanning • Extensive reading • Intensive reading Teaching Listening and Reading

  8. Techniques for Teaching Reading Skills -- A Five Stage Plan • Preteaching/Preparation Stage • Skimming Scanning • Decoding/Intensive Reading • Comprehension • Transferable/Integrating Skills Teaching Listening and Reading

  9. Sources for Reading Materials • Textbook Readings and Realia • Realia drawn from brochures, newspapers, magazines and other sources • Photographs • Web-based materials Teaching Listening and Reading

  10. Homework • Read chapter 6 on oral proficiency • Answer questions 1 and 3 on page 272 • Bring in a FL textbook (if available) Teaching Listening and Reading

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